Captain of 2018 Thai soccer team rescued from cave dies in UK
Daniel Hoffman
Updated on February 06, 2026
The skipper of the young men’s soccer group that was decisively safeguarded in the wake of being caught in an overwhelmed Thai cavern for a long time in 2018 has died. He was 18.
Duangpetch Promthep was tracked down oblivious in his residence in Leicestershire, UK, on Sunday, and died at the emergency clinic on Tuesday, the BBC revealed.
The reason for death has not been affirmed yet it isn’t being treated as dubious.
The gifted player’s passing comes only months after he showed up at Brooke House School Football Foundation, where he got a grant the previous summer.
“Today my fantasy has worked out as expected,” he composed on Instagram in August of the open door.
Promthep, who was known as “Dom,” and 11 of his partners on the Wild Pigs youth soccer group stood out as truly newsworthy when they and their mentor, Ekkaphon Kanthawong. became caught in the Tham Luang cave on June 23, 2018.
The young men, all somewhere in the range of 11 and 16, and 25-year-old Kanthawong burned through nine days without food or light before they were ultimately found by jumpers.
The gathering then spent an additional few days in the cavern before they were calmed and safeguarded between July 8-10.
The nerve racking, 18-day experience was subsequently chronicled in a few books and a Netflix series.
Almost five years after the phenomenal salvage, the BBC affirmed that Promthep’s mom imparted fresh insight about her child’s demise to the Wat Doi Wao sanctuary in Chiang Rai.
The sanctuary in this way posted a message that read “May Dom’s spirit find happiness in the hereafter” close by a photograph of the popular soccer group with priests.
Recognitions additionally poured in from Promthep’s previous colleagues.
“Rest soundly, my dear companion. We will continuously have 13 of us together,” individual survivor Prachak Sutham composed..
Salvage laborers in shadow while they take out machines used to save the 13 individuals from the cavern.
Heros laborers constantly to bring the young men and their mentor over the ground.