We are proud to be a coach-led organization. Our organization is founded on 11 core values: accountability, advice, empathy, enjoyment, humility, leadership, passion, respect, safety, tenacity, and unity. Since our inception in 2010, we have become the premier youth football academy in Rwanda. We have developed a reputation for excellence on and off the field, and we currently represent more than 100 players (ages 3 to 18) and 12 coaches (5 full-time and 7 part-time).

Ask around and you’ll hear everywhere stories of how footballers bring hope and pride to communities, and how teams inspired people to be better. That’s why we do it, because we have experienced it in our own lives and we want others to experience it as well. At the beginning and at the end, we are driven by Passion.

These last can introduce a concept or a technique but can never be the core or the proposed channel for learning. It is in the game that the player discovers solutions and creativity arises, and it is the role of the coach to facilitate that environment and guide, when needed, through that discovery. Its participant centered, not coach centered. Stating that the game is the teacher is more than a philosophical idea. At the youth stages, we want our teams to play 60 11v11 scrimmages a year. Some will be formal and some others as part of a training session, just like some will last longer than others, but they will present the stage for learning to take place. At the grassroots level, the 60 Games Rule is expressed through the constant encouragement and club initiatives to increase the overall weekly playing time of the participant. That doesn’t mean increasing the number of training sessions (team or individual), it means providing opportunities for the players to play more time in direct confrontation. We believe that players go through two developmental stages that are ‘playing ball’ until the age of 13, in which the game teaches and the coach’s role is to create the environment for learning to take place, and a second stage of ‘playing football’, in which the coach conceptualizes to maximize the player’s ability .

The future Dream Team Football Academy Player represents the club’s core values in the way he/she plays, and heart fully and honestly believes in themselves, the team, and the club. The future Dream Team Football Academy Player has six marked key characteristics that are reflected in behaviors and skills along their development through each age group. These are:

• - Accountable : Takes responsibility for own development performance
• - Competitive : Looks for what is comfortable with,and enjoy competition
• - Passionate & Tenacious : Show love for the game and the sport,show emotional involvment.passion and tenacity push him/her through moments of adversity and always give his/her best.
• - Tactically smart,Insightful, purposeful : Continously asseses situations towards finding the best solution. becomes a student of the game.
• - Technical,capable of sustain technical proficiency for 90+ minutes
• - Physical : Athletically fit for 90+ minutes at optimal controlled levels of aggressiveness and intensity.

The Dream Team Coach puts people first, and finds in every opportunity to coach an opportunity to create an environment in which the player learns. Creating these environments and pulling out the passion the players have deep down inside of them is always pursued. This is the heart of a DreamTeam Coach. Dream Team Coaches create environments for the players to express themselves. Freedom without fear, yet understanding that with freedom comes responsibility. These environments also nurture discipline, not by a constant imposition of rules but through accountability, one of our core values. The Dream Team Coach is active, positive, empathetic, thinks of the club over their own team, has a strong work ethic, and is a reflection of Passion. Our coaching always aims to nurture the player’s game understanding, and our environments create challenges for these players to make decisions based on these principles: The first step is to make decisions, the second is to make correct decisions, the third to make them fast. Exceptions apart, the following eight principles are reflected in every Dream Team session.