Asian Football Confederation (AFC) President Mohamed Bin Hammam (R) poses with Vice-President Zhang Jilong during an event in Kuala Lumpur in this March 15, 2011.

China's Zhang Jilong will be in charge of the Asian Football Confederation in the absence of Mohamed bin Hammam, who was suspended from all soccer activity by FIFA on Sunday, a source at the AFC told Reuters on Monday.

Asian soccer head bin Hammam was suspended over bribery allegations in the worst corruption scandal to blight the sport's governing body, hours after ending his campaign to unseat FIFA President Sepp Blatter.

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