The arena was the venue where Estudiantes obtained the 1913 amateur league title, and where fans enjoyed los profesores ("the professors"), the famous 1930s offensive line of Lauri-Scopelli-Zozaya-Ferreyra-Guayta.

In 1906, the Estudiantes executives focused on building a venue that could be suitable for Primera División matches so it was required by the Argentine Football Association to admit club's registration with the body.

It was because the original field on 19 and 51 avenues (where the Islas Malvinas Park is placed nowadays) was not in line with the requirements to host official matches.

In 1937 a new lighting system was installed and the stadium became the first major venue in Argentina to host night games, inaugurated in a friendly match v Uruguayan side Peñarol.

[9] Those improvements allowed Estudiantes to participate in the Torneo Internacional Nocturno Rioplatense, a Summer tournament contested by Argentine and Uruguayan clubs.

Even though a judicial restraining order exempted Estudiantes from the prohibition, the La Plata city government refused to comply.

As a stopgap measure, for the 2005 Apertura Estudiantes played its home games in the nearby Gimnasia y Esgrima stadium, Estadio Juan Carmelo Zerillo, paying a rent of 10% gross income, plus an undisclosed amount for each attending season ticketholder.

[11] At this point, Estudiantes management floated the idea of erecting a new stadium in the port town of Ensenada, a few kilometers east of La Plata.

In August 2006 it was reported that Estudiantes and the city of La Plata reached an agreement to rebuild the stands for a capacity of 20,000, all seated.

[15] Estudiantes fans also became less apprehensive about the city stadium after the historic 7–0 win over Gimnasia in October 2006, and the championship celebrations that took place in the stands, two months later.

By those times he got a degree in medicine, moving to La Pampa Province where he worked as doctor and then returning to his home town.