It is the home of Club Atlético Sarmiento, which currently plays in Primera División, the first division of the Argentine football league system.

[1][4] By the 1940s, Sarmiento was the most representative team of Junín and the most winning squad of local league, "Liga Deportiva del Oeste".

Some members of Sarmiento's executive committee met with the Secretary of the Treasury and Public Credit, Ramón Cereijo, and got the money to build a stadium.

Days later a bust of Eva Perón was unveiled, followed by several athletics competitions, finising with a banquet at night to honor the several personalities attending the celebrations.

[1] The bust was retired from the hall, and the letters with the legend "Eva Perón" (that erected over one of the grandstands) demolished.