Alejandro Dominguez unanimously elected CONMEBOL president

ASUNCION — Alejandro Dominguez of Paraguay was elected on Tuesday as the fourth president in three years of turmoil for the governing body of South American soccer.

Dominguez was the only candidate to lead CONMEBOL, and received all 10 votes from the 10 member federations. Wilmar Valdez of Uruguay withdrew his candidacy before the voting began.

The Paraguayan official also became a FIFA vice president and member of its often-discredited executive committee until May 2019.

Dominguez stepped into the positions after the last three CONMEBOL presidents were implicated in taking bribes from marketing contracts for the Copa America.

All three were arrested at the request of United States authorities in a sweeping corruption scandal surrounding FIFA and Latin America in particular.

The previous CONMEBOL president was Juan Angel Napout of Paraguay, a close friend of Dominguez, who was arrested in Switzerland last month and agreed to be extradited to the US

Eugenio Figueredo of Uruguay faces charges in his own country after Swiss authorities who arrested him last May agreed to extradite him home instead of to the US

Previously, Nicolas Leoz of Paraguay led CONMEBOL for almost three decades before leaving FIFA in 2013 to avoid sanctions in a long-running World Cup kickbacks case. Leoz was also indicted by the US Department of Justice last May and is under house arrest in Paraguay.

The vote was held in a conference center that carries the name of Leoz.

CONMEBOL members filled a second vacancy on the FIFA executive committee by picking Argentina association president Luis Segura.

The election meeting in Asuncion was attended by FIFA presidential candidates Gianni Infantino, the UEFA general secretary from Switzerland, and former FIFA vice president Prince Ali of Jordan.

Dominguez said CONMEBOL would vote as a bloc for the FIFA president, but he did not say which candidate would be chosen.

"We'll analyze various topics over the next few days," Dominguez said.