Jacks describe "miracles" «DiePresse.com

Eight days after rescuing the youth football team from a cave Thailand the twelve boys and their coach are allowed to return home. Authorities said this at a press conference with the team Wednesday in the provincial capital Chiang Rai. For the first time, the boys showed themselves in public.

Since their rescue, the children and their trainer have been housed in a hospital in Chiang Rai. Even the 25-year-old coach does not need to return to the hospital. As proof that they are now fine, the boys dribbled with bullets in the hallway. According to doctors, after days in the cave, they averaged three kilograms of weight

Live broadcast including national anthem

The press conference was broadcast live by many stations Thai television. The motto was " Thailand is making progress". At the beginning of the national anthem was played.

According to doctors, boys are good at the age of 11 to 17 years old and caregiver. Until now, there had been only shots from the hospital, where the team had been under medical surveillance since the rescue.

As a "miracle", one of the boys described the discovery of underground football teams. Adul Sam-on, 14, said the twelve boys and their coach had been hunted by British divers after nine days.

Adul had answered the divers in English while they were imprisoning the detainees after several days of searching. Cave had tracked down. His brain "did not work very well after so many days without food," he added.

Trying to dig in vain

During the nine days, they would have drunk only rainwater but not eaten, The press conference – corresponding to the name of their team – wore a football shirt with a printed boar. They had tried to get out of the cave, but it had been futile, they described their desperate situation.

The press conference aims – at least for the moment – to satisfy the great public interest for the fate of the football team. Afterwards, the boys and their coach will finally be able to return home.

Despite the warnings, the footballers made an excursion to a cave about 50 kilometers from Chiang Rai on June 23 during the rainy season. There, they were surprised by the mbades of water. Only after 17 days, the last boys were released. The rescue operation risked by flooded and narrow underpbades has been pursued all over the world.

(APA / dpa)