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RSS FeedsThai youth soccer team, now out of hospital, shares lessons from cave rescue
(The Star Fashion & Style)

 
 

18 july 2018 16:12:58

 
Thai youth soccer team, now out of hospital, shares lessons from cave rescue
(The Star Fashion & Style)
 


CHIANG RAI, THAILAND—The 12 boys and their soccer coach rescued from a cave in northern Thailand left the hospital where they had been recuperating and appeared at a news conference Wednesday, saying the ordeal made them stronger and taught them not to live carelessly.The group, looking healthy, entered the news conference to applause from reporters and classmates and put on a quick demonstration of their ball-handling skills on a miniature soccer field set up in the hall where they met journalists from around the world.They then hugged their friends before taking seats up front with doctors and members of the Thai navy SEAL unit who dived to help bring them out, along with others who helped them during their ordeal, which ended after more than two weeks when they were rescued last week.The boys, whose ages range from 11 to 16, and their 25-year-old coach answered questions submitted by the media, including about the lessons they learned during their experience.“I feel stronger, I have more patience, endurance, tolerance,” said 13-year-old Mongkol Boonpiam.Adul Samon, 14, said, “This experience teaches me not to live life carelessly.”Several said they want to become professional soccer players, while four said they wanted to emulate the heroes who saved them.“I want to be a navy SEAL because I want to help others,” said one.All said they want to apologize to their parents, most of whom they had not informed in advance about the trek to the cave after soccer practice.Read more:Thai soccer team rescued from cave crave favourite foods, wait to go home next weekBoys meant to stay an hour in Thai cave, but outside the rains beganAll 12 boys, coach rescued from Thai cave, ending gruelling 18-day ordeal“I know my mom is going to punish me and I am in big trouble with my mother,” one of the boys said when asked what he expected to happen when he got home.Doctors said the 13 were healthy in body and mind. They said th ...


 
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