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The coach and the three boys rescued from Tham Luang's cave can not enjoy the invitations of Western football clubs. Thai media reports that Ekkapol Chantawong and her three defendants are stateless and that the complicated status makes them difficult to travel even in the country.
Ekkapol Chantawong with grandmother
] On the fact that the 25-year-old man, called the hero, did not the citizenship of a country reported "Bangkok Post". The daily recalled that in a similar situation in Thailand, there are about 480,000 people, and most – like coach Chantawong – comes from the Mae Sai region. It is the area between Thailand, Myanmar and Laos with irregular legal status.
In addition, there are also three teenagers saved from the cave with a coach in a similar situation. Dul, Mark and Tee are also stateless – says AFP
– The coach and the boys have only one dream. It is the acquisition of citizenship. Due to the vague status, they had travel problems, even for games played outside of Chiang Rai province – explains in an interview with the agency Nopparat Khanthavong, founder of the team "Wild Boars "in which boys play.
"No career prospects"
They do not have a passport, so they can not go abroad. This means that for four members of the team, it was unrealistic to go to Russia for the World Cup, not just for health reasons. Chantawong, Dul, Mark and Tee can not enjoy an invitation to visit an English club Manchester United. For a weeklong stay at the training academy, he invited the whole club to the Portuguese club Benfica Lisbon
– Despite their worldwide fame, have no chance of career as a professional footballer.
See also: Touching letters from boys wearing hats in the cave
About the unregulated status of hundreds of thousands of locals that Mae Sai has been alerting for years the organization United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR). Activists from human rights organizations hope that probing the origin of the coach and three boys will help speed up the activities of the Thai government. "Only a change in state policy can help these four," notes Bangkok Post
Spectacular action
12 boys of the football team stranded in Tham Luang Nang No 23 June. The retirement of teens and their coach cut off the water that flooded the narrow entrance that they used. They survived because they found a room above the water level. The missing persons were found only after 9 days of search. Sunday, after two weeks of imprisonment, a spectacular action to liberate them began
Young footballers, most of whom do not even know how to swim, had to walk a few kilometers of winding corridors, sometimes very narrow. Most were flooded with water. On Tuesday, the last four boys and their 25-year-old goalkeeper were saved. Extracts from the cave were transported to a hospital in Chiang Rai. There are also eight team members saved Sunday and Monday
The latest reports show that most of the boys rescued from the flooded cave Tham Luang lost 2 kilos. However, there were no serious infections among them. The life of any teenager is not in danger. Doctors say that they must stay in the hospital for at least seven days. All thirteenth was under the care of psychologists.
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