durant

• Prep

  during, while

• Postp
• Verb

carrière

1. racecourse
2. career

de

• Prep

  1. of (expresses belonging)
  2. of (used to express property or association)
  3. from (used to indicate origin)
  4. of (indicates an amount)
  5. used attributively, often translated into English as a compound word
  6. from (used to indicate the start of a time or range)
  7. used after certain verbs before an infinitive, often translated into English as a gerund or an infinitive
  8. by (indicates the amount of change)

• Article
• Noun

joueur

• Noun

  player

• Adj

il

1. he (third-person singular masculine subject pronoun for human subject)
2. it (third-person singular subject pronoun for grammatically masculine objects)
3. Impersonal subject; it

jouait

third-person singular imperfect indicative of jouer

au

Contraction of à le (“to the, for the, at the”).

de pointe

cutting-edge, state-of-the-art