Napout was unanimously voted in by the South American 10 Member Federations to lead the regional body and was also appointed a vice-president of FIFA at the elections in Asunción.

He has been head of CONMEBOL since August last year, replacing Uruguayan Eugenio Figueredo, who had stepped down, and will now serve in both roles until 2019.

The Congress also saw Rafael Esquivel of Venezuela, Chile's Sergio Jadue and Uruguayan Wilmar Valdez elected as CONMEBOL vice-presidents, while Brazilian Marco Polo del Nero received unanimous support for the position of FIFA Executive Committee member.

Colombia's Luis Bedoya will also remain a FIFA member until 2017.

Meanwhile, the FIFA Presidential candidates, namely incumbent Sepp Blatter, former Portuguese international Luís Figo, Jordan's Prince Ali Bin Al Hussein and Dutchman Michael van Praag, were in the Paraguayan capital to campaign ahead of the election in Zurich on May 29.

Jeffrey Webb is set to be re-elected unopposed as CONCACAF President next month
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UEFA President Michel Platini, who decided not to run as a candidate, was also at the Congress.

Elsewhere, Webb, who become President of CONCACAF in 2012, is preparing to be re-elected unopposed on April 16.

There will be an election contest, however, for the Central American region FIFA Executive Committee post, with incumbent Rafael Salguero of Guatemala facing the challenge of Costa Rica's Eduardo Li for the position at world football's governing body.

CONCACAF vice-presidents Justino Compeán of Mexico and Jamaican Horace Burrell, member Pedro Chaluja of Panama and female member and Sonia Bien-Aime of Turks and Caicos Islands are all standing unopposed in their election to CONCACAF's Executive Committee.

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