Duangphet Phromthep

Duangphet Phromthep (ดวงเพชร พรหมเทพ; 3 July 2005 – 14 February 2023) was the Thai captain of the Wild Boars football team that was rescued from Tham Luang Nang Non cave in 2018.

He won a football scholarship to England in 2022. He died by suicide in 2023.

Life
Duangphet was born on 3 July 2005 to mother Chanta Jai-Ngiem, and known as Dom. He grew up in Chiang Rai.

He was the captain of the Wild Boars football team that became trapped in the Tham Luang Nang Non cave on 23 June 2018, prompting the seventeen-day Tham Luang cave rescue.

In 2022, Duangphet won a Zico Foundation scholarship to Brooke House College Football Academy in Leicestershire, England.

Death
On 12 February 2023, Duangphet was found unconscious in his room at Brooke House College Football Academy. He was taken to Kettering General Hospital, where he died on 14 February.

He was 17 years old at the time of his death. Leicestershire Police described the circumstances of death as unsuspicious.

Following his death, Duangphet's family made a public appeal to Zico Foundation leader and former footballer Kiatisuk Senamuang for funds to repatriate his body to Thailand. After a cremation in the United Kingdom, Kiatisuk Senamuang delivered Duangphet's ashes to his parents at Suvarnabhumi Airport on 4 March 2023. A Buddhist ceremony was held for Duangphet in the Wat Phra That Doi Wao temple in Chiang Rai province.

An inquest concluded that he had died by suicide. The reason for his death is unknown.