Interestingly, the French high school team was absorbed by the Madrid team just two years later, on 30 January 1904. Madrid FC Parages became the first French footballer to wear the Madrid team's shirt, after his debut on 2 November in a friendly match against Moncloa Football Club held at El Escorial, in which he helped his side to a 2–7 victory for Madrid. He made his competitive debut with the club in the semi-finals of the very first edition of the Copa del Rey in 1903, which took place on 6 April 1903 against the Club Espanyol, netting one of the goals in a 4–1 win, thus helping his side reach the cup's first-ever final, which ended in a 2–3 loss to Athletic Club. In the following years, he won four consecutive Copa del Rey titles between 1905 and 1908, which still stands as the shared national record for consecutive cups. In the same way, and being the tournament that gave access to the national cup, he won a total of five regional championships of Madrid. He won a total of nine official titles during his career. Parages played a crucial role in the first great team in the history of Real Madrid since he was able to pass on to his teammates the knowledge that he had acquired in England about football. In 1904, Parages became part of the board of directors chaired by Carlos Padrós. It was his first contact with the management tasks of the club. He hung up his boots in 1908 to devote himself to managerial tasks, although he played a few sporadic matches until 1909. In addition to his valuable contributions as a player, Parages was also the author of the club's rules and regulations, which he drew up from the experience he acquired in England. Presidency In addition to being a great player, he was also a great patron for the entity, and his main achievement as such was getting the funds for the construction of the first proper football pitch the club ever owned, the Campo de O'Donnell, which opened in 1912, during his first interim presidency, but despite being only a short spell in the absence of the then president Adolfo Meléndez, it left a big mark in the club since O'Donnell allowed the exploitation of football as a sporting spectacle by charging money for tickets for the first time