Financial details weren’t revealed, though earlier local reports said the soccer team members would each get $94,000 for the rights.
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Gallery: Trapped Thai cave boys describe two-week ordeal
It was meant to be a fun excursion after football practice, but it turned into a life-threatening, two-week ordeal for a group of youngsters trapped in a cave with rising waters and no apparent escape route. When coach Ekkapol Chantawong led twelve members of his “Wild Boar” youth football team into the mouth of northern Thailand’s Tham Luang cave complex on 23 June, he thought they’d be no more than an hour.
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Watch: First video messages from rescued Thai boys
The 12 Thai boys rescued after spending 17 days in a cave system have shared their first video messages. As well as updating people on their health and sending thanks, the boys had something else on their mind.
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Thailand cave rescue: first pictures of boys recovering in hospital – video
The twelve boys and their football coach’s ordeal began two and a half weeks ago when they first became trapped in the flooding caves. It took nine days before they were found deep below ground, cowering on a mud shelf.
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All 12 boys and football coach rescued from Thai cave
Thai Navy SEALs announce completion of rescue mission, saying all boys and their coach are safe
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Rescuers to extract final four boys and coach from Thai cave Tuesday
A doctor and three Thai Navy SEALs, who have stayed with the group since shortly after they were discovered huddled on a muddy ledge deep inside the Tham Luang cave complex, will also come out
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In pictures: Rescue from flooded Tham Luang cave
A treacherous rescue bid to free a youth football team trapped in a flooded Thai cave entered its second day Monday, with nine of the “Wild Boars” still inside after elite divers guided four out. Looming rain was one of the main enemies of the operation, threatening to flood the cave complex in mountainous northern Thailand, although a bewildering array of other dangers could also doom their safe return.
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Four boys rescued from flooded Thai cave
Treacherous Thai cave rescue bid enters day two
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Operation to rescue boys trapped in Thai cave begins
The “Wild Boars” team has been confined in a cramped chamber several kilometres inside the Tham Luang cave complex since June 23