Twelve boys and their soccer coach who were rescued from a cave in northern Thailand in July will next month travel to Argentina for the Youth Olympic Games and later the United States for talk show appearances, local media reported Monday.

The group was invited to attend the games in Buenos Aires by Thomas Bach, president of the International Olympic Committee. They will depart on Oct. 3 for the games, being held from Oct. 6 to 18, and return home on Oct. 20.

All expenses during the trip to games will be taken care of by the IOC.

According to local media, the IOC will also schedule a special soccer match between the team, known as the Wild Boars, and Olympic youth athletes to form bonds of friendship.

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While in the United States, they are scheduled to appear on the Today Show and Late Night in New York.

Some related Thai officials are expected to travel with the boys including former Chiang Rai Gov. Narongsak Osottanakorn, who led the rescue effort.

The team entered the Tham Luang Nang Non cave in Chiang Rai province on June 23 and were subsequently trapped by rising flood waters. Amid a frantic search by hundreds of rescuers and support personnel, they were found about 4 kilometers inside on July 2.

All 13 were successfully extracted from the cave over the course of three days.