[1] Freimanis started playing football in the early 1930s with the youth squad of Olimpija Liepāja.
He played with the senior squad of Olimpija from 1937 to 1939, winning two Latvian Higher League titles.
In 1940 when Latvia was annexed by the Soviet Union and former Latvian sports clubs were disbanded, Freimanis joined RAFS 1, later he played with Dinamo Riga.
After World War II Freimanis ended up in the West, from 1945 to 1946 he played in Greven, the next season he moved to Holstein Kiel, helping them to finish runners-up in the Schleswig-Holstein championship play-offs in the summer of 1947[3] and in the following year he settled in England.
His first club there was the amateur side Eynesbury Rovers, but in the 1947/1948 season he became the first Latvian footballer to play in a professional English football club as he joined Peterborough United (in 21 match for the club he scored 22 goals), for two more seasons he played with Northampton Town F.C., until finally he landed in Nuneaton Borough,[4] where he also worked as a coach for some time.