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Duangpetch Promthep Wiki – Bio
Duangpetch Promthep, the captain of the men’s soccer team who was dramatically rescued after being trapped in a flooded Thai cave for two weeks in 2018, has died. He was 18 years old.
Duangpetch Promthep was found unconscious in his bedroom in Leicestershire, UK, on Sunday, and died in hospital on Tuesday, the BBC reported. The cause of death has not been confirmed but it is not being treated as suspicious.
The passing of the talented player comes just months after he arrived at the Brooke House College Football Academy, where he received a scholarship last summer. Today my dream has come true,” he wrote on Instagram in August about the opportunity.
Duangpetch Promthep Age
Duangpetch Promthep was 17 years old.
Thai boy who was rescued from a flooded cave in 2018 dies in England aged 17
Promthep, known as “Dom”, and 11 of his teammates on the Wild Boars youth soccer team made international headlines when they and his coach, Ekkaphon Kanthawong, were trapped in the Tham Luang cave on 23 September. June 2018. The children, all between the ages of 11 and 16, and Kanthawong, 25, spent nine days without food or light before divers finally discovered them.
The group then spent several more days in the cave before being sedated and rescued on July 8-10. The harrowing 18-day ordeal was later chronicled in several books and a Netflix series.
Almost five years after the miraculous rescue, the BBC confirmed that Promthep’s mother shared the news of her son’s death with the Wat Doi Wao temple in Chiang Rai.
The temple later posted a message saying, “May Dom’s soul rest in peace,” along with a photo of the famous soccer team with monks.
Tributes also poured in from Promthep’s former teammates
“Sleep well, my dear friend. We will always have 13 of us together,” wrote his fellow survivor Prachak Sutham.
Brother, you told me that we would be achieving our football dream… if the next world is real, I want us to play football together again, my brother Dom,” said Titan Chanin Viboonrungruang.
The British ambassador to Thailand, Mark Gooding, tweeted that he was “saddened” by Promthep’s death.
“My condolences to Dom’s family and friends,” he wrote.