The prolific striker from AS Monaco, who has beaten Zlatan Ibrahimovic's goalscoring record in Ligue 1 with no less than three hat-tricks and 10 goals in total in seven games, is yet to choose his senior national team.
Biereth, who was signed by Monaco for €13m from Sturm Graz in January, has played five matches for the Danish Under-19 national team and six matches for the Under-21's but that does not necessarily mean that he is going to line up for Denmark against Portugal as he still has the luxury of being able to choose between four different nations as he has never played a match at A-international senior level.
Born in London in 2003 to a Danish-German father and a Bosnian mother means that he is in fact also eligible to play for Bosnia, Germany, and England. Biereth is allegedly still to make a decision but acknowledges the looming decision.
“I didn’t expect these questions a month and a half ago, but success brings them naturally. It’s a unique situation—few players can represent four countries. The choice is mine to make", said Biereth after Friday's match against Reims
In simple terms, according to FIFA rules, you may play for:
• The country you were born in; or
• If your grandparent was born in a given country, you are eligible to play for that country; or
• if you are married to a citizen of another country, you may play for that country; or
• If you are a naturalized citizen (live and work) in a country, you may play for that country.*
If a player represented a country at youth level (under 23), they can apply to switch national teams as long as they haven’t played for the senior national team in a competitive match.
The Danish national team coach Brian Riemer was Friday night in Monaco to check out Biereths current form in the match aginst Reims, where the 22-year old striker made his third hat-trick.
Riemer has previosly announced that he would never solely pick a player for the Danish national team in order to prevent them to play for other nations out of respect for the rest of the Danish squad.
But given the fact that Riemer doesn't have a host of potent in-form strikers at his disposal and that Belgian league leading goalscorer, Kasper Dolberg, is presumably out with a knee injury, it would be a surprise of enormous proportions if Biereth isn't included in the Danish squad to be announced on Tuesday.