Asuncion: South American football confederation CONMEBOL will unanimously back Switzerland's Gianni Infantino to replace banned Sepp Blatter as FIFA president, it said Thursday.

The scandal-plagued confederation, whose new leaders have called to clean up graft in football, "unanimously agreed to vote as a bloc for Mr Gianni Infantino" in the February 26 election at world football's governing body, it said in a statement. CONMEBOL accounts for 10 votes of FIFA's 209 member associations.