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BANGKOK (Reuters) – Twelve boys and their soccer coach rescued from a flooded world. .
"We are going to be very good at this. "The Chiang Rai Prachanukroh Hospital," said the official.
The official declined to be identified as it is not authorized to speak to media.
France play Croatia in the World Cup final in Moscow on Sunday, at 10 p.m. in Thailand.
The World Soccer Governing Body.
The 12-member "Wild Boars" soccer team and their coach trapped inside a flooded cave in the northern province of Chiang Rai.
They have been recovering in hospital since they were discharged on Thursday.
The boys, aged 11 to 16, and their 25-year-old coach had planned to explore the Tham Luang cellar complex for an hour after soccer practice on June 23. But a rainy season down for flooded tunnels, trapping them .
Two British divers found them on July 2, squatting a mound in a flooded chamber several kilometers inside the complex. Rescuers then had to work out how to get them out of the flooded tunnels.
All 13 were brought to safety by Thai Navy SEALs and an international team of cave-diving experts.
The rescue was greeted by some of the world's biggest soccer clubs.
Last week, Manchester United invited the "Wild Boars" to watch a match at their Old Trafford Ground.
About 4,000 volunteers were on Sunday taking part in a clean-up of the area around the Tham Luang winery.
A park area around the mouth, which has been pulled down by the hundreds of rescuers, and media workers, who flocked to help with the mission and to report on it.
Authorities have closed the cellar for a tourist attraction – with enough safeguards in place to make sure no one gets trapped again.
Additional reporting by Panu Wongcha-um; Editing by Robert Birsel
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