This chat needs to go in a separate topic.
The marketing statements made about futsal are pretty spurious and not at all supported with science. They just trot out the names of some famous players who played futsal.
On the flip side, there's some easily digestible logic about futsal improving technique that seems to make sense.
In Wellington, there were a couple of private leagues doing okay. Then NZF came in, centralised everything, and it seems to have diminished. The theory that it would take off because we have shit weather here and futsal is indoor doesn't really seem to have been borne out. There are a lot of factors at play there though.
The great irony is that NZF (and Capital Football) took it on hoping to make money from it, but the opposite has happened.