Definition: In this task, you will be presented with a passage and have to answer a question based on your understanding of the events inferred from the passage. Try to find the best answer that is most likely to fill in "_". Note that the URLs in the text have been replaced with [Link].
Input: The campaign for the 2026 World Cup will be postponed in the wake of ongoing allegations against FIFA around previous tournament bids. Secretary General Jerome Valcke revealed the plans to hold off after the decision was set to be made in May 2017 at the FIFA congress in Kuala Lumpur. Despite the crisis, FIFA is pushing ahead with preparations for the 2018 World Cup in Russia and Valcke attended a meeting of the organisers in the city of Samara in the Volga region on Wednesday. Canada Mexico Colombia Morocco United States England New Zealand and Australia Kazakhstan Valcke, who has found himself at the heart of allegations that South Africa paid a $10million (£6.5million) bribe to Jack Warner via FIFA's executive office, said after the meeting: 'Overall the preparations for the FIFA Confederations Cup and the FIFA World Cup as well as our first major event, the preliminary draw, are well under way and on schedule.'The bidding process for the 2026 World Cup has been suspended by FIFAFootball's governing body was to make a decision in Kuala Lumpur in 2017Following the corruption scandal Jerome Valcke revealed plans to hold offDespite crisis FIFA will go ahead with preparations for Russia 2018It was announced that Sepp Blatter could be gone as early as DecemberMeeting to decide presidential election date was to be held in SeptemberHowever FIFA have decided to arrange an extraordinary meeting in July 
 Question:_ announced he would resign last Tuesday - four days after he was re-elected for a fifth term - following corruption charges against FIFA officials that caused the biggest crisis in the world governing body's history.

Sepp Blatter