Paraguay's Dominguez elected CONMEBOL president (updated)

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

"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."

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.

"It is time to change," Dominguez said during his acceptance speech to CONMEBOL, in Luque, Paraguay.

"We will leave behind one of the saddest pages in the history of CONMEBOL as well as its immoral management," he vowed.

Colombia's Ramon Jesurum was voted as the first vice president and Venezuela's Laureano Gonzalez as second vice president. Endit