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I'd like to find out why the author repeats the same verb in this sentence.

  • Une légende du football qui avait remporté le Ballon d’Or à 3 reprises et remporté un nombre ahurissant de titres au fil de sa carrière.
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  • Do you have a link maybe? Considering who is writing/talking, and in what conditions (live brodcast...) it might be just an redundancy mistake.
    – Bebs
    Commented Jan 2, 2017 at 7:59
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    Not considered really nice style, a more stylish journalist reporter would have written: .. qui avait remporté le Ballon d'or à 3 reprises ainsi qu'un nombre ahurissant...
    – None
    Commented Jan 2, 2017 at 8:06

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The sentence "Une légende du football qui avait remporté le Ballon d’Or à 3 reprises et remporté un nombre ahurissant de titres au fil de sa carrière." is correct.

The sentence "Une légende du football qui avait remporté le Ballon d’Or à 3 reprises et un nombre ahurissant de titres au fil de sa carrière." is also true.

It's a bit strange in English but totally common in French. Repeating twice a verb after a "and" is not considered a mistake.

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