Steffen Freund
Steffen Freund (2005)
Steffen Freund ( born January 19, 1970 in Brandenburg an der Havel ) is a German football coach and former football player.
- 2.1 successes as a coach
Playing career
Club level
Friend began at age six at the BSG Motor Sued Brandenburg. As a student, he joined the BSG Stahl Brandenburg, where he rose from junior level up in the GDR Oberliga team.
In 1991 he moved to the Bundesliga for FC Schalke 04, where he became an important midfielder. For financial reasons friend was sold to Borussia Dortmund in 1993 and played there until 1999 117 Bundesliga matches of. He has been with the club in 1995 and 1996 German champion and 1997 winner of the UEFA Champions League and the World Cup.
In January 1999, he moved to Tottenham Hotspur in the English Premier League. In the same year he won with Tottenham against Leicester City 1-0 the League Cup. 2002 suffered friend a torn ACL and made it then not to fight back into the team. After a brief stint at the 1 FC Kaiserslautern in 2003 he was loaned to England again in 2004 and finished his career there with Leicester City.
In 2009 he was inducted into the Hall of Fame of Tottenham Hotspur.
National
The defensive midfielder completed 21 caps for the German national football team and won with the team the European Football Championship in England in 1996. In addition, he took part in the Football World Cup 1998 in France. In 1988, he finished with the GDR the 3rd place at the European Junior Championships. 1989 friend was appointed to the Sport Olympic selection in the GDR, with whom he performed in several test games. Even before the start of the qualifiers for the Olympic Games 1992, the team was withdrawn in the wake of German reunification.
Successes as a player
- European Championship: 1996
- World Cup winner with Borussia Dortmund: 1997
- Champions League winner with Borussia Dortmund: 1997
- German Champion with Borussia Dortmund: 1995, 1996
- League Cup with Tottenham Hotspur: 1999
- Since December 2009, a member of the Hall of Fame of Tottenham Hotspur
Coaching career
In addition to an activity (until November 2010) honorary junior conductor and D- youth coach ESV Lok Elstal ( Havelland ) took friend on 1 September 2007 the post of assistant coach Frank Engel for the German U20 national team. For the African Nations Cup in 2008, he supported as an assistant coach the national team of Nigeria, Berti Vogts, to then go back to work as an assistant coach of the German U-20 national team. In May 2009, he successfully completed the training to become football coach. On 17 July 2009 a friend was introduced as the new coach of the U-16 national team. A year later, he was coach of the U-17 national team, with which he was Vice-European Champion in 2011 and finished 3rd in the U- 17 World Cup in Mexico. He then took the DFB again the new U-16 vintage. On 11 July 2012, he returned to Tottenham Hotspur and signed a contract as an assistant coach André Villas -Boas.
Success as a coach
- European vice-champion with the U-17 in 2011
- 3rd place in the U -17 World Cup 2011
Private
Steffen Freund is married, has two daughters and a son and lives in Potsdam district Fahrland.
Remarkable
During a UEFA Cup game in 1993, Steffen Freund swallowed by a neck shot out his tongue. Substitute Lothar Sippel saved his life.
Up until 2004, was a friend of Vice President of the players' union union contract football player ( VDV).
2006 joined friend along with Boris Becker at the British TV show They think it 's all over on where the final of the 1966 World Cup between Germany and England, which won the British 4:2, by reference.