{"id":20197,"date":"2018-10-29T01:24:40","date_gmt":"2018-10-29T01:24:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=20197"},"modified":"2018-10-29T01:24:40","modified_gmt":"2018-10-29T01:24:40","slug":"leicester-city-confirms-owner-vichai-died-in-helicopter-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=20197","title":{"rendered":"Leicester City confirms owner Vichai died in helicopter crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"body-200771816342556199\" readability=\"84.2588147037\">\n<p class=\"speakable\">English football club Leicester City has said Thai owner Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha was among five people who died when a helicopter crashed next to its stadium.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">The 60-year-old retail entrepreneur&#8217;s helicopter burst into flames shortly after taking off from the football field on Saturday at the team&#8217;s King Power stadium.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">The club&#8217;s statement on Sunday did not name the other four victims.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\" readability=\"2\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"und\"><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/hQSR0IDWWg\">pic.twitter.com\/hQSR0IDWWg<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Leicester City (@LCFC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LCFC\/status\/1056666958870073345?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 28, 2018<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;In Khun Vichai, the world has lost a great man. A man of kindness, of generosity and a man whose life was defined by the love he devoted to his family and those he so successfully led,&#8221; the statement said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Leicester City was a family under his leadership. It is as a family that we will grieve his pasing and maintain the pursuit of a vision for the club that is now his legacy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Vichai bought Leicester for 39m pounds ($50m) in 2010 when it was in the second-tier Championship and bankrolled the revival that peaked with the 5,000-1 outsiders improbably wining the English Premier League in 2016.<\/p>\n<p>Having accomplished one of the greatest underdog stories in the history of sports, the central England team is now valued by Forbes at 371m pounds ($476m).<\/p>\n<p>According to Forbes magazine, Vichai was the fifth richest person in Thailand with an estimated net worth of $4.9bn.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div readability=\"32\">\n<p>\n            SOURCE:<br \/>\n            <span>Al Jazeera and news agencies<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>English football club Leicester City has said Thai owner Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha was among five people who died when a helicopter crashed next to its stadium. The 60-year-old retail entrepreneur&#8217;s helicopter burst into flames shortly after taking off from the football field on Saturday at the team&#8217;s King Power stadium. The club&#8217;s statement on Sunday did&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":20198,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20197\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/20198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}