Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha,owner of Leicester City, died tragically in a helicopter crash outside the club’s stadium on Saturday shortly after their 1-1 draw against West Ham.
The Club have put out the following statement :
“It is with the deepest regret and a collective broken heart that we confirm our chairman, Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha, was among those to have tragically lost their lives on Saturday evening when a helicopter carrying him and four other people crashed outside King Power Stadium. None of the five people on-board survived.
The primary thoughts of everyone at the club are with the Srivaddhanaprabha family and the families of all those on-board at this time of unspeakable loss. 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. Leicester City was a family under his leadership. It is as a family that we will grieve his passing and maintain the pursuit of a vision for the club that is now his legacy.”
We at Soccerblog add our mourning to his untimely passing.
We had followed Leicester’s unlikely journey to glory a couple of seasons ago pretty closely and so,on some level,this feels like a personal loss.
RIP Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha.