Zhang Jilong
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Zhang Jilong is a Chinese
China
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 football admistrator who is the current President of the Asian Football Confederation
Asian Football Confederation
The Asian Football Confederation is the governing body of association football in Asia. It has 46 member countries, mostly located on the Asian continent. However, due to the disputed boundary of Europe and Asia, nations such as Russia and Turkey which are located mostly in geographic Asia are...

 since 14 June 2011. Jilong served as a Vice President of AFC from 2002 to 2011 and Senior-Vice President from 11 January 2007 to 1 August 2011. He is also a member of FIFA Executive Committee
FIFA Executive Committee
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Early life

He was born on 9 February 1952 in Yantai
Yantai
Yantai is a prefecture-level city in northeastern Shandong province, People's Republic of China. Located on the southern coast of the Bohai Sea and the eastern coast of the Laizhou Bay, Yantai borders the cities of Qingdao and Weihai to the southwest and east respectively.The largest fishing...

, Shandong Province. He was 17 to Yantai shipping work, and joined the army
Military of China
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 at the end of that year, a correspondent for the Jinan Military Region. In 1972, Jilong jobs to the work of the National Education Committee, and was sending to the Beijing
Beijing
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 Second Foreign Language Academy. Back to National Sports Commission after graduation, he began to engage in foreign affairs, and in the second year coach with the Chinese sports delegation to Nigeria
Nigeria
Nigeria , officially the Federal Republic of Nigeria, is a federal constitutional republic comprising 36 states and its Federal Capital Territory, Abuja. The country is located in West Africa and shares land borders with the Republic of Benin in the west, Chad and Cameroon in the east, and Niger in...

’s foreign aid work, at the age of 24 years. Foreign aid to Nigeria was mainly volleyball
Volleyball
Volleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team's court under organized rules.The complete rules are extensive...

, table tennis
Table tennis
Table tennis, also known as ping-pong, is a sport in which two or four players hit a lightweight, hollow ball back and forth using table tennis rackets. The game takes place on a hard table divided by a net...

, gymnastics
Gymnastics
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 and badminton
Badminton
Badminton is a racquet sport played by either two opposing players or two opposing pairs , who take positions on opposite halves of a rectangular court that is divided by a net. Players score points by striking a shuttlecock with their racquet so that it passes over the net and lands in their...

 coach advantages of the project, Zhang Jilong primarily responsible for translation and liaison work. Nigeria was still in poverty and hunger among the sport even further behind. Zhang Jilong spent a full two years and ten months. That experience made him a lot of accumulated experience, these experiences can not learn at home, but also affected his subsequent life path, “in retrospect, when I feel most is that we need to make friends, only friends all over the world circumstances, our business can thrive well developed, our status will rise higher and higher. “

Football careers

In 1978, Zhang back home. Chinese Football Association was formally established, he was in the Football Association in foreign affairs. He then to the Football Association to work, basically a very old riding a bicycle
Bicycle
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, car destroyed an old briefcase. When it rains, he will wear the old black raincoat. When not busy, Zhang Jilong the first stop after work is vegetable market, home cook to cook for the family. Cycling to work, which is rare in football senior leadership, Nan Yong and Football Association Xie Yalong also live in the vicinity, but they have luxury cars, but in football there are also special parking spaces for the parking lot.

Zhang Jilong said that his style of doing things is an honest man, neatly work, “this style can not be lost no matter what time, what we used to say, the Chinese character can not lose any time to be low-key, can not be overstated. “Zhang Jilong the Football Association’s official until 2008 when he was left China, Zhang Jilong were working here for 30 years. He is currently working football circles, the longest in the Football Association who has a record of 30 years, no one can break.

AFC career

He became AFC Finance Committee chairman on April 2000 and is also chairman now. After election of Mohammed Bin Hammam
Mohammed Bin Hammam
Mohamed bin Hammam is a Qatari who was formerly a football administrator and president of the Asian Football Confederation from 1 August 2002 to 14 June 2011, and a member of FIFA's 24-man executive committee from 1996 to 2011 for more than 15 years...

 as AFC President on 1 August 2002, He was named as one of his vice presidents. He was elected as Senior-Vice President on January 2007 by AFC members. He ran for a seat on Fifa's executive committee on January 2011 but was beaten in a vote at the AFC's congress in Doha
Doha
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Bin Hammam
Mohammed Bin Hammam
Mohamed bin Hammam is a Qatari who was formerly a football administrator and president of the Asian Football Confederation from 1 August 2002 to 14 June 2011, and a member of FIFA's 24-man executive committee from 1996 to 2011 for more than 15 years...

's suspension from FIFA
FIFA
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 was greeted with a wall of silence in Asia
Asia
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 as soccer figures in the region took stock in the aftermath of stunning turn of events. Bin Hammam had been due to stand against Sepp Blatter
Sepp Blatter
Joseph S. Blatter , commonly known as Sepp Blatter, is a Swiss football administrator, who serves as the 8th and current President of FIFA . He was elected on 8 June 1998, succeeding João Havelange. He was re-elected as President in 2002, 2007, and 2011...

 at the FIFA Congress
61st FIFA Congress
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 in Zurich
Zürich
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 on 1 June 2011 but withdrew his candidacy a day before facing an ethics committee hearing into bribery allegations.

Bin Hammam and Jack Warner
Jack Warner
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, President of CONCACAF
CONCACAF
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, were suspended over bribery allegations while FIFA's ethics committee cleared President Blatter of any wrongdoing.

FIFA suspended Bin Hammam for life on 23 July 2011 and he was officialy dismissed as head of Asian Football Confederation. On 29 July 2011, The members of AFC were informed that the Legal Committee is in agreement that an Extraordinary Congress for the election of President may be convened in the event that the office of President falls vacant for more than one year. This means that an Extraordinary Congress for this purpose could not be convened until after 30 May, 2012 and Jilong will be served as President until that date. He was also elected as member of FIFA Executive Committee
FIFA Executive Committee
FIFA Executive Committee is an institution of FIFA . It is the main decision-making body of the organization in the intervals of Congress...

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