PERFORMANCE SUPPORT
Complete development goes beyond the football pitch.
A player's development is influenced by more than technical and tactical ability. Physical preparation, recovery, nutrition and the ability to consistently meet the demands of training and competition all contribute to performance.
Castek works with specialist performance partners to give players access to expertise beyond football coaching — while keeping the individual player at the centre of the process.
Strength & Conditioning
Delivered in partnership with Super Athlete Development Centre
Individualised physical preparation designed to develop the athletic qualities required for performance.
Super Athlete is co-founded by Mihai Anghel, Sports Scientist, Sports Physiologist and Strength & Conditioning Coach, whose academic background combines exercise physiology, biomechanics, sports nutrition and strength & conditioning.
Mihai holds a BSc (Hons) in Sport & Exercise Science — Sport and Exercise Performance from the University of Suffolk and an MSc in Sport Nutrition, awarded with Merit, from Manchester Metropolitan University.
Alongside his work with athletes, Mihai has been a Professor at Romania's National Centre for Coach Development (Centrul Național de Perfecționare al Antrenorilor) since 2022, contributing to the education and development of sports coaches.
Super Athlete has worked with national and international-level athletes across multiple sports, including tennis, swimming, diving and professional team-sport environments. Its athlete network includes national-team representatives, national and international champions, ATP/WTA and ITF-level tennis players, collegiate athletes and Olympic-level competitors.
His approach combines sports science with practical high-performance coaching, helping athletes develop the physical qualities required by their sport through individualised training, testing and ongoing performance monitoring. Support can include:
Individual strength & conditioning
Physical performance testing (or interpretation of results for online clients)
Strength and power development
Speed and agility development
Conditioning
Injury-risk reduction
Physical development monitoring
Sport-specific athletic development
The objective is not simply to make a player fitter. It is to build the physical qualities that allow them to perform their football actions more effectively.
Performance Nutrition
Delivered in partnership with Nutritik Performance by Alex Maftei
Individual nutrition support designed around the demands of the athlete, their training schedule and their performance goals.
Nutritik's approach combines evidence-based sports nutrition with individual assessment and ongoing support. Services can include RMR testing, body-composition assessment, calorie and macronutrient planning, personalised nutrition strategies and one-to-one nutritional coaching.
Support can include:
Individual nutritional consultation
RMR testing (or interpretation of results for online clients)
Body-composition assessment (or interpretation of results for online clients)
Energy requirement analysis
Calorie and macronutrient planning
Training and match fuelling strategies
Recovery nutrition
Personalised food planning
Ongoing 1-to-1 nutrition coaching
VO₂max and cardio-metabolic testing (or interpretation of results for online clients)
Alex Maftei holds a Master's in Sports Nutrition from Leeds Beckett University, is a Registered Sport & Exercise Nutritionist (SENr), UK Anti-Doping Accredited Advisor and licensed dietitian nutritionist.
His experience includes performance nutrition within the Qatar Stars League, Romanian professional football, the Romanian Women's National Team and Olympic-level swimming.
One player. One development picture.
Castek focuses on the footballer. Our specialist partners provide expertise in the areas surrounding the footballer.
Together, this allows development to be considered across the technical, tactical, physical and nutritional demands of performance, without pretending that one coach can be an expert in everything.