Year-round futsal coaching for kids and teens, from a father and son who grew up on the courts of Buenos Aires. Real technique, real game sense, and plenty of garra.
Futsal is one of the most skilful games on the planet. Fast, technical, and won by the smartest player on the court.
In New Zealand, it's mostly what you play when football season ends. A fitness filler. A preseason extra.
We think that's exactly why it hasn't grown here yet.
Futsal is a sport in its own right.
It has its own technique, its own tactics and its own training methods. Rotations, set plays, time-outs, rolling subs. A game of decisions, made at speed.
In Brazil and Portugal, kids grow up playing futsal. In Argentina, generations grew up on baby fútbol, and over the last 15 years those same clubs have moved into futsal leagues. Small courts, small teams, thousands of touches. Some move to grass. Many stay. Either way, they arrive with skills you can't learn on a full-size football pitch.
We're here to give Kiwi kids that same start, and a real choice: futsal as a path, not just an accessory.
And the name? La balanza is a move every kid on an Argentine court knows: stop the ball dead with the sole and land balanced, already facing goal. You'll rarely see it on a football pitch. It's futsal in one move: control, balance and facing forward.
The countries where kids learn the game on small courts are the same countries that keep winning, on both surfaces.
FIFA Futsal World Cups won by Brazil, Spain, Argentina and Portugal. Nobody else has ever lifted it.
Men's FIFA World Cups won by Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay and Spain, including the 2026 final. More than half of all tournaments ever played.
Sessions a week for a typical futsal kid in Buenos Aires, plus a game at the weekend. Ten months a year, not just in winter.
Cristiano Ronaldo. Ronaldinho. Neymar. Iniesta. Vinícius. They all grew up playing futsal.
"If I were five, I'd start with futsal."
Launching 2027 in Auckland. Every programme is built around one idea: futsal trained as futsal, by people who grew up inside it.
Weekly group training by age and level, all year round. Ball mastery, decision making and the fundamentals of the game, coached the way it's coached in Buenos Aires.
Individual sessions that target exactly what a player needs: first touch, the sole, 1v1 moves, finishing, reading the game. Football players very welcome.
Futsal goalkeeping is its own craft: the split, the block, playing with your feet, and becoming a fifth outfield player. In Auckland, nobody teaches it formally. We will, with a specialist keeper coach.
Want to play games, not just train? Balanza teams play in Auckland futsal leagues, and they're open to every player in our programmes. As we grow, we'll add teams at different levels so every player gets real minutes with players like them.
We bring futsal into your school before school, at lunchtime or after school. It builds a futsal culture and gets kids hooked on the sport early.
Coaching and clinics for school and club teams that want to play real futsal: structure, rotations, set plays and a game model, not just football played indoors.
In South America and Iberia, kids learn on small courts first. Then they choose: futsal, football or both. We're building the same pathway here, from the first touch all the way to regional and national teams.
Fun first. Thousands of touches, the sole of the foot, balance, and loving the ball.
Technique under pressure, 1v1, first tactical ideas, and playing as a team.
Game model, rotations, set plays, physical preparation and competing to win.
Regional and national youth futsal, or the step up in football. Wherever the game takes them, they'll be ready.
Our players can go on to play football, futsal or both. Either way, they'll have the touch, the decision making and the garra that court players carry for life.
Four pillars, brought from Argentina and adapted for Kiwi kids.
The sole, the toe-poke, receiving on the half-turn. Thousands of touches every session, in tight spaces, at game speed.
Rotations, 3-1, 4-0, pressing triggers and set plays. Real futsal ideas, taught at the right age.
Intensity, courage and never giving up. The South American edge, and it can be coached.
Game-based learning. Players solve real problems, make decisions and love coming back.
Two generations, one obsession. Both of us learned the game on the courts of Buenos Aires.
#10 · Head CoachAndy is a baller. He's the player you want on your team, and the one you don't want to face. Fierce, technical, and he reads the game better than anyone on the court.
He started at six at Club Pinocho in Buenos Aires, the most decorated club in Argentine futsal, and never stopped. Now 18, he has won the National Futsal Superleague, NZ's top competition, with Auckland City.
He coaches the Selwyn College Junior Boys, and he trains them the way he was trained.
Director · TacticsPablo is pure passion on the bench. He lives every play like he's out there on the court, and he still sees the whole game three passes ahead.
He found futsal through Andy, fell for it straight away and was soon playing competitive adult leagues himself. In New Zealand he turned that passion into coaching, earning a qualification under a recognised Argentine coach.
He leads the Selwyn College Senior Boys, and builds teams that play with heart and know exactly what they're doing.
When we got to New Zealand, we both saw the same thing, Andy as a player and Pablo from the bench. Kids with real talent and real hunger, and a sport nobody was developing properly.
No year-round training. No futsal-specific coaching. No path from the first touch to the top.
So we set out to change that. Balanza is the club we wish had been here when we arrived.
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