NY Times · Jun 2, 2015
Open Source: Blatter’s Fall Leads to Rejoicing Online From His Critics
Photo A cameraman outside of FIFA headquarters. Credit Philipp Schmidli/Getty Images Sepp Blatter’s sudden announcement that he would resign as president of FIFA, world soccer’s governing body, after 17 years, triggered a global wave of reaction on social networks on Tuesday.
Mr. Blatter, who said that he would step down amid a widening corruption inquiry, was re-elected to his post just four days ago by a majority of national soccer federations — but he was broadly unpopular with fans of the game in many parts of the world, so the online reaction was marked by a good deal of glee and schadenfreude.