Manuel D’Souza has built his career across playing, coaching, and high-performance athlete development. His experience includes football coaching as well as strength and conditioning work across football and other professional sports environments.

He currently serves as Strength & Conditioning Coach for the Indian Senior Men’s National Football Team, working on physical preparation, fitness, recovery and performance demands at international level. He is also Co-Founder & Head of Performance at Global Athlete Network (GAN), where he helps develop structured athlete-development pathways focused on performance, education and long-term progression.

His approach centres on strength and conditioning, athlete testing, load management, recovery, movement quality and long-term athletic development, supporting athletes from youth development environments through to elite competition.