[HollyB]

Def incorrect. The head coach had an appt that day. He gave the asst coach tips on how to look after the kids since he would not be available that day.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/he-loved-them-more-than-himself-how-a-25-year-old-former-monk-kept-the-thai-soccer-team-alive/2018/07/07/b4100076-815e-11e8-b3b5-b61896f90919_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.797a0ca08aad

[21twelve]

But the assistant coach is a “stateless orphan” - so that makes a better story perhaps!! (Lots of crap on twitter where folks are saying stuff like “Now maybe they can come over here and rescue the 10,000 kid's locked up in the ICE cages.”

The team itself has numerous (mostly?) stateless kids - refugees from Myanmar and elsewhere.

[HollyB]

About each person in the cave

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-44762010

Articles discussing the asst coach

https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/relationships/family-friends/thai-cave-coach-lost-entire-family-aged-10/news-story/f707d6791ab0424c4321ce327951a25d

http://www.asianews.it/news-en/Waiting-anxiously-for-the-boys-trapped-in-the-cave-44295.html