It is Aruba's national football stadium, named after Guillermo Trinidad, a politician from the same neighbourhood (Dakota).

The festivities included a parade, a demonstration of calisthenics by 800 school children, and a football match between Bubali and Jong Santa Cruz.

Jani Brokke, Dutch Antilles football player at the 1952 Summer Olympics, took the athlete's oath.

The complex was reopened and renamed after the neighbourhood Dakota's local politician Guillermo Prospero Trinidad.

[citation needed] The stadium housed the Aruban Olympic Committee (COA) until the organisation outgrew their quarters.