Stunned Thais on Monday digested news of the death of billionaire Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha, whose dazzling success as owner of Leicester City showered pride and prestige on the kingdom.
Vichai, 60, died when his helicopter plummeted into a car park outside the King Power stadium shortly after his side’s 1-1 draw with West Ham on Saturday.
For most of his life the publicity-shy duty-free magnate, Thailand’s fifth richest man who spun billions from his King Power monopoly, was not a household name in his native country.
That changed with Leicester City’s odds-defying English Premier League title in 2016, the unlikeliest of victories in the world’s most watched football league that has gone down in footballing lore.
While he continued to avoid interviews, Vichai was a regular at Leicester matches and his face — and the King…
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