Alejandro Domínguez continues as president of Conmebol: the Paraguayan was re-elected for his third term

Alejandro Domínguez, elected in 2016 as president of Conmebol, and re-elected in 2018, was again elected this Friday for a third four-year term (2023-2027) at the Congress of the South American Football Confederation, meeting in Qatar. The manager born in Paraguay was the only candidate.

In Doha, the 50-year-old businessman was elected at the end of a vote of the ten South American federations, after having managed to reform the institution under whose command he was put after the arrest of his predecessor and compatriot Juan Ángel Napout, who had been sentenced to nine years in prison in the United States for his involvement in a vast corruption scandal.

“We have made an important change in South American football, we managed to change history and be a much better confederation than before, but we still have a long way to go”Dominguez said. “I believe that as long as we continue to be the most transparent confederation in the world, we will be able to follow this policy of developing South American football with confidence”.

In the context of the coronavirus pandemic, Domínguez was proud of having managed to organize the 2021 Copa América in Brazil, while the competition was initially scheduled for Argentina and Colombia. To do this, Conmebol obtained 50,000 doses of the Sinovac vaccine, intended to immunize players, coaches and referees for the tournament.

“We were the only non-governmental organization in the world that obtained a batch of vaccines to immunize its ecosystem”said the Paraguayan leader during the congress, which was attended by FIFA president Gianni Infantino, a few hours before the draw for the Qatar 2022 World Cup in the city of Doha.

Domínguez welcomed Conmebol’s collaboration with its European counterpart, UEFA: the two confederations plan to organize competitions together, starting with the ‘Finalissima’, the gala match scheduled for early June in London between Italy and Argentina, currently in force champions of the European Championship and the Copa América respectively.