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Young Köln phenom Said El Mala isn’t the only Germany U21 international who knows what it’s like to drop from senior back down to youth level. In El Mala’s case, it all happened during a whirlwind ten-day-span that saw him earn a senior team call up before being shipped back to the U21s. The story of 20-year-old Bayern Munich midfielder Tom Bischof is quite different, though there are some similarities.
Bischof has already been capped once at senior level, playing 25 minutes as a substitute for Germany during the third-place playoff against France in the Nations League this summer. The Aschaffenburg-native might have continued along this trajectory had it not been…