Thailand’s ambassador to the UK joined the funeral service for Duangphet Phromthep, or “Dom,” who was captain of the Thai football group that was rescued from a cave.
The Royal Thai Embassy stated Ambassador Thani Thongphakdi attended yesterday’s funeral together with college students and teachers from Dom’s faculty, the CEO of Leicester City Football Club and others. The embassy says Buddhist monks performed rites on the ceremony “in accordance with household needs.”
Dom’s mother had beforehand requested a monk to perform the rites in order that her son’s spirit wouldn’t be trapped.
The dying of Dom got here as a shock to the world as the 17 yr previous was listed as wholesome earlier than he travelled to the UK on a soccer scholarship.
According to Fox News, Dom was found unconscious in his room on February 12 at Brooke House College Football Academy in Leicestershire, central England. He handed away two days later.
Although his reason for death was listed as unknown, rumours swirled that he had fallen and hit his head. Police say his reason for demise was not believed to be suspicious, however his passing left the world shocked.
The Embassy says the Zico Foundation sponsored Dom’s studies in England and is facilitating the repatriation of his stays to his family back in Thailand.
Dom was the captain of the Wild Boars youth soccer staff in Thailand’s northern province of Chiang Rai. All-inclusive and his teammates have been aged eleven to sixteen after they grew to become trapped within the flooded cave named Tham Luang.
The staff grew to become well-known as the world watched a dramatic rescue operation unfold. They had been rescued by an international staff of skilled divers after being caught for more than two weeks within the cave..