[3][4] During his time with the London club, he won the League Cup in 1999, starting in the centre of midfield in Spurs's 1–0 win over Leicester City.

[3] He also appeared at the 1998 FIFA World Cup, where Germany fell at the quarter-final stage to Croatia; Freund was an unused substitute in the match.

In May 2009 he finished his coaching badges and on 17 July 2009 he was appointed manager of the German U-16 team signing a two-year contract.

A year later he began managing the German U-17 team leading them to a runners up medal at the 2011 UEFA European U-17 Football Championship and a third place at the World Cup in Mexico.

[citation needed] In 2006, he appeared alongside Boris Becker in a special England v. Germany edition of the popular panel show They Think It's All Over.

At the start of the 2011–12 season, Freund began working as a pundit for Eurosport's coverage of the German Bundesliga and Sky Deutschland.