Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha, Thai owner of England's premier league club Leicester City, was dying in a helicopter crash near the club's stadium. The confirmed the club on Sunday evening. Srivaddhanaprabha was 60 years old.
In total, there were five deaths, including the two pilots. The disaster occurred on Saturday night after the home game against West Ham United (1: 1). Srivaddhanaprabha's helicopter started as usual from the lawn at King Power Stadium.
Srivaddhanaprabha, father of four children, took Leicester for £ 39m in August 2010, replacing Milan Madaric as Club Chief in February 2011. Under his leadership, the foxes rose in 2014 in the Premier League and wrote two years later with the English championship, a modern football fairy tale.
Srivaddhanaprabha became the billionaire founder of the duty-free consortium King Power. In the money list of Forbes magazine he is with an estimated fortune of the equivalent of about 4.3 billion euros in fifth place in Thailand and 388 worldwide. In May 2017, he had also bought the Belgian second division OH Leuven.
Comments