Zhang Jilong's main achievements

Zhang Jilong has made great efforts for the legal status of China Football Association in FIFA, and expanded the exchanges and cooperation between China and the international community. He and other comrades of the Football Association did a lot of work to establish the first professional football league in China, actively lobbied for China's deeper influence in the world, and won the right to host the 2004 Asian Football Championship, which was successfully held in Beijing, Chongqing, Jinan and Chengdu.

Zhang Jilong is also the hero of China football entering the World Cup finals for the first time, because he won a good group draw for China men's soccer team in the qualifying stage with his connections in the circle. At the draw ceremony for the Top Ten Asian Games held in Bangkok on May 38, 2006, Zhang Jilong, who assessed the situation at that time, finally won the "signing" for the China team within the scope permitted by the rules, and was once praised as "the hand of God" by the outside world. At that time, China successfully entered the World Cup finals for the first time. In August 2008, Zhang Jilong was awarded the FIFA Honorary Award by FIFA, becoming the first China official to receive the highest honor from FIFA. 20 13 on may 2nd, Blatter presented a special contribution award to thank the acting president of AFC.