The boys in the cave in Thailand asked for "rich" food and thanked

The Thais of the football team who were trapped in a flooded cave in Thailand, and their coach, made their first statements in a video broadcast yesterday in which they talk about the "rich" dishes that they would like to savor.

The country's Minister of Health, Piyasakol Sakolsatayadorn informed the press that they could leave the hospital next week.

"We will need the cooperation of the media while the children and their families adapt to everyday life," he said.

"We prepare them for the attention they will receive from the media."

In the video released by the Ministry of Health, children thank relief teams and the public for having them saved.

The miners and their trainer diet and gradually return to eat normally after losing up to five kilos during the approximately two weeks they have spent underground.

"The 13 people have physically strong bodies.As for infections, thanks to medical badessments of the first days, some of them had mild pneumonia, but now everything is fine, without fever" The 12 players, aged between 11 and 16, and their coach of 25 men, were trapped in Tham Luang cave on June 23 because unexpected flood blocked their release.

They were rescued last week in an operation with expert divers who kept the world in abeyance because of the complexity of getting them out through very narrow tunnels and The group is recovering at the hospital in the northern province of Chiang Rai, near the border with Myanmar.

The 12 young players and their coach, rescued from the cave, will leave next Thursday d e the hospital where they are admitted, indicated doctors, who offered psychological support and urged the group to avoid the press

"The 13" boars & # 39; (their team is known) are in good physical condition and in a good mood, "said the minister." They will be completely released, in principle Thursday. "

Children – and their parents – were invited to spend time with their friends and family, and not to give interviews to the press, as this could "trigger symptoms of traumatic stress," the minister added. 19659002] All of Thailand, as well as the rest of the planet, continued with the soul in suspense this history in many ways has similarities with that of the 33 Chilean miners who were trapped in 2010 in a mine in Copiapó, and that they were finally saved.

The children and their trainer spent nine days in the bowels of the cave until two British divers managed to find them

Emaciated but alive, they were perched on a rock at more than four ki lometers from the entrance to the cave.

Since last Sunday, Thai and foreign divers have started a risky operation to get them out of the cave.

They were extracted by groups and the successful operation lasted three days.

"Protect them", say some of the 33 miners

Santiago. Aware of the dangers now lurking for the 12 children and their coach saved from a cave in Thailand, some of the miners who survived 69 days trapped in a mine in Chile 8 years ago ask to protect them from the noise of the media and "crooks".

"The most important is that the authorities and the family protect a lot these children because many people only want to enjoy it," recommends Luis Urzúa, one of the 33 miners left 69 days in the San José mine , in the intestines. of the Atacama desert, in 2010.

Urzúa warns that the recovery of this "life experience" is not easy. "We have been here for 8 years and we still can not overcome many things."

Some suffer from depression and other psychological problems, such as José Ojeda, the author of the message "we are well at refuge 33" after 17 days without news, which had to be admitted to a psychiatric hospital .

And despite the union they have shown in long detention to survive, now many are fighting each other.

Scammed

But perhaps the most difficult thing was to feel cheated by the pack of lawyers, producers and other people who wanted to exploit their history

They took out all the information, "said Urzúa, and regretted that they were not well informed.

Still astonished by the encierro, the noise media that has generated one of the most risky and cinematic rescues of the global mining history and the promises of "Each of us was told that we could earn 50 or 60 million pesos (between 77,000 and $ 92,000 at the current exchange rate) and they gave us half an hour. Sign the contract "in a law firm, says another minor Juan Carlos Aguilar.

Now, a group of these former miners, among whom Urzúa and Aguilar, want to overturn this badignment of rights, although that they lack money for that.

Today, they can not rely on themselves. story in a book or make a movie that accurately reflects what They feel they have reached more than 600 meters deep during these long months. "We can not even sell a plate of 33," he says.

"They destroyed us," they say. praising the circle of protection created by the Thai authorities around the 12 young people, members of the football club "Wild Boars" and his coach

After the film and the book that was written on his story, he badures that they have not received anything. "This was not to make us rich, but to have a quiet life "after the film" Los 33 ", directed by the Mexican Patricia Riggen and with Antonio Banderas inspired by the book" In the Oscuridad ", by the American journalist Hector Tobar

Urzúa badures that what they received after their rescue is "inferior" to 5 million pesos (less than 8 000 dollars at the current exchange rate)) that a Chilean businessman, Leonardo Farka handed over to each of them when they left the mine.

For Mario Sepúlveda, another of the most visible faces of the group of 33, badures that "the strength of these children is different from ours". "That they continue to train, they will do very well and take things together."

"I hope that they will make a film, a TV series, a bestseller, but do it well.They should be smart and not be guided by crooks," warns Sepúlveda [19659002] and it is already announced that the operation to save 12 children and their football coach in a cave in Thailand, and who took the life of a diver, will be taken to the cinema by a producer of the appearance religious.

Impressive images of the rescue of young Thais, between 11 and 16 years old, and their trainer, were distributed Wednesday at the end of the rescue lasted three days

Some went on stretchers under sedatives, but in general the physical and mental condition of young people is good, according to medical sources.