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Paraguay's Dominguez elected CONMEBOL president

Xinhua, January 27, 2016 Adjust font size:

Paraguay's Alejandro Dominguez was Tuesday elected unopposed as president of South American football governing body CONMEBOL.

The 44-year-old received all 10 votes from the confederation's 10 member nations.

The only other candidate to show interest in the position, Uruguay's Wilmar Valdez, withdrew before the vote began.

The election comes less than a month after Dominguez's predecessor Juan Angel Napout, also of Paraguay, was extradited to the US to face corruption charges.

Former CONMEBOL presidents Eugenio Figueredo and Nicolas Leoz have also been indicted in the corruption probe.

"My biggest promise is to restore credibility to CONMEBOL," Dominguez said.

"We want to emphasize transparency. We want to return to the essence of football, its values and fair play." Endit