Rescuers saving boys soccer team are total heartthrobs
They’ve got an underground following.
The rescuers working to save the Thai youth soccer team trapped in a cave have become sex symbols in Thailand, according to a new report.
Chief among the heartthrobs is dreamy 19-year-old volunteer translator Somjet “Jet” Sae-zhang, whose images have gone viral on social media, according to local news site Khaosod English.
“Now that the boys are found … I want to fangirl about this interpreter, but wasn’t sure if it was appropriate,” one Instagram user wrote alongside a video of him interpreting near the cave where 12 young soccer players and their coach are trapped by floodwaters, according to the news outlet.
Sae-zhang, who sports a bad-boy earring and fingerless gloves, has racked up more than 98,000 followers on Instagram.
Fans are also sharing homemade music videos featuring images of the rescuers, who have become fixtures of Thai television as residents sit glued to coverage of the rescue effort unfolding in the northern city of Chiang Rai.
“Not only are your faces handsome, your hearts are handsome too,” reads the caption of one Instagram video featuring Sae-zhang and other young volunteers, according to Khaosod.
Photos of hunky US Air Force troops helping to extract the boys from the cave are also popular — while Air Force Capt. Jessica Tait, the on-camera face of the American contingent, has become a familiar image in Thailand, the news outlet reports.