This paper deals with public policies produced around sports in the municipality of Avellaneda, one of the 24 districts sorrounding the city of Buenos Aires.The paper focuses on the presentation of two programs that the city government has pushed to develop sport among children and youth from the municipality.The programs are aimed at promoting the sport in two modes: recreational sport and competitive sport.This presentation also allows exposure to some of the conditions of how this sport is practised in the Buenos Aires district.Finally, this paper allows us to observe how the communal ideals underlying public policies articulate with the precepts that cross political sport national government.