Players and staff from Leicester City were set to touch base in Bangkok Sunday to go to a grieving custom for the club's executive Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha, whose demise a week ago in a helicopter crash staggered the Premier League club.

Sunday denotes the second day of seven days in length function held at Wat Thepsirin, one of Bangkok's most acclaimed sanctuaries which normally fills in as the site for funerals of essential Thais.

Over the coming days Thailand's matter of fact and political elites are required to visit the sanctuary to offer their regards, while priests will recite Buddhist sections over the obligation free magnate's body.

Vichai, 60, passed on a week ago, alongside four others, when his helicopter smashed and burst into flares minutes subsequent to taking off from Leicester's pitch following a match.

His passing sent shockwaves through Leicester, where the charming Vichai had turned into a darling figure in the club and the city — an accomplishment once in a while accomplished by the Premier League's remote proprietors.

It was under Vichai's possession that Leicester created one of the greatest fantasies in English football history by winning the 2015/16 Premier League, having begun the season as 5,000-1 outcasts for the title

On Saturday the group played at Cardiff City, their first match since his demise, with players from the two groups meeting up to offer their regards previously the amusement.

Gigantic standards including Thailand's banner saying "R.I.P. Vichai" moved over the stadium, and the group watched a moment of quiet. Fans wore T-shirts with Vichai's image on it, underneath the words "The Boss".

After the match, 13 individuals from Leicester City — including director Claude Puel, striker Jamie Vardy and Shinji Okazaki — loaded up a contracted trip to Bangkok, as per an announcement from Vichai's organization, King Power.

Alongside executive of football Jon Rudkin, alternate players going to are all piece of the primary group squad.

They are group chief Wes Morgan, protectors Harry Maguire, Christian Fuchs and Ben Chiwell, midfielders Wilfred Ndidi, James Maddison, Marc Albrighton and Andy King.

Goalkeeper Kasper Schmeichel — who is accepted to be the nearest of all the Leicester players to Vichai — will likewise go to the memorial service.

A King Power representative likewise included that Princess Sirivannavari Nariratana, the little girl of King Maha Vajiralongkorn, is relied upon to go to Sunday's function.

The initial three days of the intricate service will have imperial sponsorship.

After the week-long function, Vichai's body will be kept for 100 days before incineration, however a date still can't seem to be set.

Vichai's organization begun with a solitary store in Bangkok; today, his King Power domain incorporates an imposing business model over the obligation free shops in Thailand's vacationer overwhelming air terminals.

In spite of his business smarts Vichai owed his rising to the vigilant route of Thailand's unusual legislative issues and powerbrokers.

His connects to the government were reflected for the sake of his organization and his surname — which was presented to him by the previous ruler, and signifies "promising and prosperous light".

Vichai deserts a spouse and four kids, two children and two little girls.

The four other accident exploited people were distinguished by British police as Nursara Suknamai — a performer and a sprinter up in Miss Thailand Universe in 2005 — and Kaveporn Punpare, the two individuals from Vichai's staff, pilot Eric Swaffer and traveler Izabela Roza Lechowicz.

source: http://starnation.com.ng/leicester-city-footballers-pay-last-respects-to-vichai-in-bangkok/

RIP to the dead.

May his WONDERFUL soul Rest in Peace