Little was a goalkeeper in the New Zealand Olympic football squad which competed at the Beijing Olympics in 2008.
But playball now is his passion, and takes up his time.
He holds the franchise for the playball programme in Dunedin and has been building up the scheme for the past few months.
It is a programme which originated in South Africa 20 years ago, and has spread to all corners of the globe.
It is an age-specific, curriculum-based programme which breaks down all of the fundamental movement barriers in eight popular sports.
Little said a million children were taught in playball programmes every week around the world. Children aged from 2 to 9 were involved, he said.
During a lesson, four or five different sports were played.
The programme was designed to introduce children to the basics and it was introduced in a game situation so that it was fun.
Programmes for younger children were more focused on movement development, with a smaller ratio of sports skills.
Older children had a bigger ratio of sports skills and a smaller percentage of time was spent on consciously developing the movement skills so necessary in the younger years.
