Former Chelsea, Real Madrid and Arsenal midfielder Lassana Diarra, alongside player representatives FIFPro, are suing FIFA over a contract dispute with Lokomotiv Moscow in 2015.

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Stuck on the sidelines, Diarra decided to sue FIFA and its local representative, the Belgian FA, for €6million in lost earnings. Once his ban had expired in 2016, his football career resumed ...

Lassana Diarra is a former much-traveled footballer whose career saw him play for prestigious clubs such as Chelsea, Paris Saint-Germain and Real Madrid. He represented France 34 times.

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Diarra made a counterclaim, referring the case to the Court of Arbitration for sport by Diarra, however CAS upheld the Fifa ban on appeal and ordered that Diarra pay Lokomotiv €10.5m plus interest.

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LASSANA DIARRA is the man at the centre of what could be a REVOLUTION in how football runs and operates. The retired France international, 39, is a blast from the past for many football fans but hi… ...

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New Real Madrid midfielder Lassana Diarra has backed his former employers and "friends" to push up the English Premier League table in the coming months. In a report published in The Portsmouth ...

Lassana Diarra in action for Arsenal in 2007 (Getty Images) If it goes the other way, they’d have to rewrite those rules. That would represent a completely new football world.