Lassana Diarra

Lassana Diarra is a French retired footballer of Malian descent, born in Paris in 1985. ¹ A defensive midfielder, he played for Le Havre, Chelsea, Arsenal, Portsmouth, Real Madrid, Anzhi Makhachkala, Lokomotiv Moscow, Olympique de Marseille and Paris Saint-Germain, and won 34 caps for France between 2007 and 2016. ¹ The English article calls him a practising Muslim but names no school for him, so his data record leaves his faith as unknown. ¹²

Born in Paris to Malian parents and raised in Belleville, Diarra began at Le Havre and moved to Chelsea in 2005, then to Arsenal and Portsmouth, with whom he won the 2008 FA Cup. ¹ He joined Real Madrid in 2009, played for Anzhi Makhachkala and Lokomotiv Moscow in Russia, returned to France with Marseille in 2015, and finished at Paris Saint-Germain, retiring in 2019. ¹³

Diarra played 34 times for France between 2007 and 2016; he was named in the Euro 2016 squad but withdrew through a knee injury. ¹ In November 2015 his cousin Asta Diakité was killed in the Paris terrorist attacks while he was playing for France at the Stade de France. ¹ The article's personal-life section describes him as a practising Muslim. ¹

The English article states that "Diarra is a practising Muslim" and files him under "French Muslims" — a generic identification joined to practice, in one article family. ¹ The Arabic and French articles make no statement of his religion, and Wikidata gives his religion as Islam, generically. ⁴³² No source read names a school for him personally, so his record states his faith as unknown. ¹

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