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The captain of the boys’ soccer team that was dramatically rescued after being trapped in a flooded Thai cave for two weeks in 2018 has died. He was 18.
Duangpetch Promthep was found unconscious in his dorm in Leicestershire, UK, on Sunday, and died at the hospital on Tuesday, the BBC reported.
The cause of death has not been confirmed but it is not being treated as suspicious.
The talented player’s passing comes just months after he arrived at Brooke House College Football Academy, where he received a scholarship last summer.
“Today my dream has come true,” he wrote on Instagram in August of the opportunity.
Promthep, who was known as “Dom,” and 11 of his teammates on the Wild Boars youth soccer team made international headlines when they and their coach, Ekkaphon Kanthawong.
