Yann Aurel Bisseck is in the German national team before his debut. In the meantime, this dream was so far away that the Cologne native thought of founding a flat share and studying medicine.
“When you go in, you feel a little story”says Yann Aurel Bisseck, “A little happened there.” That is at least a bit understood, because the Giuseppe Meazza stadium is the home venue for two large European football clubs. Both currently have a German central defender in the squad. At AC Milan it is Malick Thiaw, at Inter it is Bisseck. Thiaw is born in Düsseldorf with three missions in the A national team, Bisseck-born in Cologne with the view of his debut.
Debut in the “own” stadium possible
On Thursday (20.03.2025, live in the first and in the live stream of the sports show) in the first leg of the quarter -finals of the Nations League against Italy in the same historical stadium in Milan.
Thiaw, 23 years old, played his three caps in 2023, the last of them under national coach Julian Nagelsmann. Thiaw was appointed to the squad under Hansi Flick because Armin Bella Kotchaap had to cancel, still a young defender who was there, but is now far away from the national team.
It was different with Thiaw, said Nagelsmann in the nomination, but he had already seen it. Now he wants to see Bisseck. “A good form is counted under the current national coach. You have to see that every game counts”Bisseck said in an interview with the sports show when asked what was necessary to be part of the squad permanently and maybe even attack Antonio Rüdiger and Jonathan Tah, i.e. the regular players in central defense.
Kimmich: “Bisseck has taken a special way”
When Aurel, as he wants to be called, Bisseck arrived in the district of the German national team on Monday, he climbed out of the minib with Joshua Kimmich. That was a coincidence, said the captain, who already has 97 caps. So they could have talked a bit about the upcoming quarter -finals in the Champions League, in which his FC Bayern meets Inter.
Bisseck, according to Kimmich in an interview with the sports show, is “Go a special way through some stations”including the seniors Roda Kerkrade from the Netherlands and the Portuguese first division club Vitória Guimarães, in which he even ended up in the second team. “Not everyone has to go the classic way. There are many ways here”said Kimmich.
DFB juniors and professional debut at the age of only 16
Until the transition to the seniors, Yann Aurel Bisseck looked classic. He was trained in the youth performance center of the 1st FC Köln, played for junior selection teams of the DFB and made a debut in the professional team when he was not even 17 years old.
Then it stopped, and it went loan to Holstein Kiel, loan to Kerkrade, loan to Guimarães. “Heavy phases” he had in these stations and not to play until little, still be “The smallest problem” been. “When injuries are added, and I was very often injured in younger years, above all at my loan stations, that will be on the psyche at some point”says Bisseck, “It would have been pleasant to play near the parents’ house. But that wasn’t the case with me.”
Bisseck was injured for eight months at Guimarãe’s second team, in northern Portugal. There he had brooded, had “To other options” intended as football: “I always wanted to study medicine. Then we would have moved to Berlin and had opened a shared apartment.” Bisseck had two German teammates in Guimarães that it was a “Huge luck” been, “They caught me”.
It continued with football. But San Siro, Inter Milan, the Champions League, the German national team, was far away. Bisseck moved to Denmark, to Aarhus GF, this time not loaned, the 1. FC Köln sold him. He could count the people on two hands who always believed in him. For those who did not belong to his family, he first called Markus Daun.
FC young coaches: “Certain raisedness”
Daun works for Bayer Leverkusen today, and he used to be a coach in the youth area of the Cologne. Therefore, he knew Bisseck and the reservations that colleagues had against the 1.96 -meter -tall central defender. “A certain burden” If Bisseck had had Bisseck because of his stature and style of play, that would have on some “Negative arrogant” worked.
Bisseck would not want to torture himself, he said that he lives in a comfort zone. “It’s great if he performs well without effort“, Daun said. To demand and promote him, he then had it played in the central midfield instead of in central defense. Bisseck brought that to the professionals at the age of 16, but at some point the biggest club in his hometown was over. “I am very happy for Aurel that he is now in the national team”says Daun in the phone call with the sports show, “He has a great family home and is very intelligent. I kept watching him.”
With 16 Abitur, medical studies still possible
Yann Aurel Bisseck came to school at the age of five and graduated from high school at 16 because he skipped a class. He can further imagine studying medicine, but later he definitely wants to have children, and “whether that fits so over time “ is questionable. In the “heavy phases”, including in Portugal, Bisseck thought that “My body may not be made for competitive sports” has been. Could be, I have already shown itself in other talents.
These doubts have now evaporated. Yann Aurel Bisseck is 24 years old, in the squad of the A-national team, with Inter Milan, and he feels in San Siro that the fans of Inter like the Germans. Jürgen Klinsmann, Andreas Brehme and Lothar Matthäus played for Inter. The “Mr. Klinsmann”According to Bisseck, it was even visiting.