On Wednesday, a lot of front pages included images of former FIFA president Sepp Blatter walking from the podium toward an opening door. Blatter announced his resignation Tuesday, just a few days after being reelected as Fifa’s head, and that was just a few days after the FBI arrested a number of top FIFA officials on charges of corruption. Versions of this image ran on The New York Times, the Miami Herald, The Guardian and many others.
Not every paper that led with the news went with that photo-as-perfect-metaphor, though. Here are five newspapers that did something different, via Kiosko and Newseum.
Metro in Brazil led with a Star Wars homage in versions all over the country. This one’s from Rio de Janeiro:
Lance! in São Paulo, Brazil led with the domino effect:
Hoy in Chicago led with Blatter’s empty chair:
nrc.next in the Netherlands went with a sunny farewell:
And Diario 2001 in Venezuela led with a cartoon showing FIFA literally losing it’s head:
