FIFA president Blatter, a retired Swiss football administrator and eighth FIFA president, announced his resignation after the 65th FIFA Congress and proposed an extraordinary FIFA congress be held.
Joseph "Sepp" Blatter (born 10 March 1936) is a retired Swiss football administrator who was the eighth President of the FIFA (French: Federation Internationale de Football Association) from 1998 to 2015. On 2 June 2015, six days after the United States government indicted several current and former FIFA officials and sports marketing companies for bribery and money laundering, Blatter announced that he would call for elections to choose a new president of FIFA and that he would not stand in these elections, but he also said he would remain in his position until an extraordinary FIFA Congress could be held for his successor to be elected. 
