With four possible options, Ligue 1 high-flyer Mika Biereth was considered a potential future international by several football associations. Now the 22-year-old has made up his mind.
Whether it’s fellow countryman Rasmus Höjlund or striker legend Zlatan Ibrahimovic, Mika Biereth, the high-flyer of the Ligue 1, has not been short of comparisons. The new signing for AS Monaco, who last year helped Sturm Graz end RB Salzburg’s winning streak, went from 0 to 100 in the south of France and picked up where he left off in Austria in the principality.
The 1.89-meter lanky striker was involved in 16 league matches (eleven goals, five assists) in the Austrian Bundesliga, and ten more goals were to follow in the first seven Ligue 1 games of his career. In February alone, Biereth scored three hat-tricks – against Auxerre (4:2), including a hat-trick within eight minutes.
A haul that puts the Danish U-21 international striker on a par with greats like Harry Kane and Robert Lewandowski (also 21 goals) with 21 goals in the 2024-25 season. Accordingly, the hype surrounding the striker, who, despite his scoring rate, always successfully submits to the team concept with clever runs and intensive pressing, is also correspondingly great – but not only in France.
Because as the son of a German-Danish father and a Bosnian mother, who grew up in England, the London-born player was considered a possible future international for four national associations. According to SID information, the DFB had also examined whether the attacker could possibly play for Germany. However, it was determined that this case does not come into question with regard to the FIFA statutes on association changes.
Two Wolfsburg players back, but three Bundesliga players not selected
There is also a rather hypothetical hope, as the Danish national team coach Brian Riemer reveals: “Mika feels very Danish,” said the 46-year-old, adding: “The Danish part of his family is very important to him. He has always dreamed of making them proud by representing Denmark.” The striker captained the Danish U-21 national team as early as October last year.
One of the victims of the high-flyer’s first national team call-up is Leipzig’s Yussuf Poulsen, who, like the other two Bundesliga players Frederik Rönnow (Union Berlin) and Jens Stage (Werder Bremen), was not nominated for the quarter-final ties in the Nations League with Portugal (March 20 and 23). Instead, the two Wolfsburg players Mads Roerslev and Joakim Maehle are returning to the squad.
