The report says Tuyishimere has helped expand the programme to five teams, creating a route from modified football through two junior varsity sides and up to varsity.
That matters because school football often lives or dies on numbers, retention and trust. Nottingham’s model appears to tackle all three. Players can arrive with different backgrounds - pickup football, travel football, little formal coaching - and still feel there is a place for them.
The football itself sounds clear: short passing, energy without the ball, and a demand for commitment. It is an approach that seems to value technique, but not at the expense of discipline.
The report says Nottingham have gone 43-7-7 across the past three years, reached three straight sectional finals and won a first sectional title in 37 years in 2024. That kind of rise rarely comes from talent alone. It usually comes from habits.
“There’s so much times he could have given up on me,” Azizi Juma said of his coach. That quote may be the clearest insight of all. Tuyishimere’s work appears to be rooted in patience, second chances and accessibility, including through community outreach and affordable access to equipment.
His reported response to one late-arriving player says plenty too: “It wouldn’t be fair,” Tuyishimere explained.
That is how programmes last. The next story to watch is whether Nottingham can turn this culture into another deep run - and whether its pathway keeps producing players who feel the club, and the school, belongs to them.