Thai boys' football team, coach will travel abroad to thank world for cave rescue support
Bangkok ((NNT/VNA) - The Thai boys' football team and their coach, who have been rescued from a flooded cave, will visit foreign countries from October 3-15 to thank them for taking part in the rescue operation.
The 12 boys and their coach will travel to Argentina
and the US respectively to participate in the opening ceremony of the 2018
Summer Youth Olympics in Buenos Aires.
In the US, they will attend a ceremony to
present the Asia Game Changer Award by Asia Society to Provincial Governor of
Phayao Narongsak Osotthanakorn, the commander of the rescue operation.
The government said the boys and their coach had
been invited as strong young athletes, not as heroes. The trip is also a good
opportunity for them to thank the global community for its support for the
rescue operation, government said.-NNT/VNA