Leicester players to attend club owner funeral
Leicester City will travel to Thailand for the funeral of owner Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha. The 60-year-old billionaire died last Saturday with four others when his helicopter crashed next to Leicester’s King Power Stadium.
According to Thai sources the funeral likely to last a week, starts on Saturday in Bangkok.
Former England international Vardy said on Friday that he and the other players:
“We need to make sure we do him proud on the pitch”.
Saturday’s Premier League match in Cardiff is the Foxes’ first since the incident and manager Claude Puel has said the result is “not important”.
Vichai bought Leicester in 2010 and the team went on to stun the football world by winning the English Premier League title against the odds in 2016.
“We all spoke about wanting to play,” said Vardy. “It’s what Vichai would have wanted and that’s we are going to do. We know what we have to do and we need to go out and honour his name and put in a performance which will hopefully get the win.
“It is going to be tough and it will be very emotional, but we’ve all chatted about it. People are saying the result doesn’t matter, but for us lads we want to make it a positive result.”
Leicester City are 12th in the table on 13 points, while promoted Cardiff City are 17th with five points from 10 games.
Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha was a Thai billionaire businessman and the founder, owner and chairman of King Power Duty Free. He was also the owner of Premier League football club Leicester City from 2010 until his death in a helicopter crash at the King Power Stadium in Leicester.
Leicester City went on to win the 2015–16 Premier League title after starting the season as 5000/1 rank outsiders. Shortly before the 2016–17 season, Vichai gifted 19 players a BMW i8—at £100,000 each—as a gift for winning the title.
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