[2] During his trips to the capital of Spain due to work obligations, he did not give up on his passion for football and kept playing, doing so for two years (1906–08) with Real Madrid without ever abandoning the Barça ranks.
[4] Quirante was part of the club's first great team in the early 1910s, which had the likes of Massana, Amechazurra, Peris, Paco Bru and the Wallace brothers (Charles and Percival).
After a brief appearance at Universitary SC, Quirante decided to found his own club in 1912, Casual SC, together with other dissidents from FC Barcelona, some of which decided to leave Barça for feeling that Quirante's expulsion was unfair and the other left the club due to financial differences, among whom Paco Bru, Carles Comamala or Charles Wallace.
[2] However, his official managerial career only began 20 years later, in 1927, when the now retired Quirante was appointed as the new coach of RCD Espanyol.
After another unsuccessful brief spell, this time with Unión Sporting Club, Quirante become the coach of Real Madrid CF, which is the highlight of his managerial career, finishing as runners-up of the first-ever Spanish league season in 1929, winning two Centro Regional Championship and even a Copa del Rey runner-up medal in 1929.
After the war, he was hired by Athletic Madrid in 1939, leading the team in a few matches of the 1939 Mancomunado, which was won by Club Aviación Nacional, whose manager was Ricardo Zamora.