Rescued Thai footballers to be ordained in Buddhist ceremony

One of the rescued Thai footballers gets his hair cut by a Buddhist monk at the Phra That Doi Wao temple in Thailand yesterday. Pic/AFP

Most members of the Thai youth football team rescued from a flooded cave will have their heads shaved and don robes to be ordained as novices in a Buddhist ceremony on Tuesday. Their coach will also receive monk's orders. One of the boys will not join the ceremony as he is a Christian, the BBC reported.

The group will spend nine days living in a monastery, a tradition for males in Thailand who experience adversity. They were trapped for more than two weeks before a dramatic rescue. This step is intended to be a "spiritual cleansing" for the group, the BBC report said.

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