{"id":378895,"date":"2025-11-14T18:24:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T18:24:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/378895\/"},"modified":"2025-11-14T18:24:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T18:24:12","slug":"marta-award-brentfords-ashley-cheatley-nominated-with-marta-and-vivianne-miedema","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/378895\/","title":{"rendered":"Marta Award: Brentford&#8217;s Ashley Cheatley nominated with Marta and Vivianne Miedema"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It was not the first time Cheatley had attempted an overhead kick, and she came close at former club Ashford Town, hitting the bar against then title rivals Norwich City.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">This time, though, her acrobatic effort was on target and helped the Bees continue a memorable run to the third round of the FA Cup.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The winner of the Marta Award will be determined through a combination of a fan vote and a panel of &#8216;Fifa legends&#8217;, with the public vote closing on 28 November.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Speaking of her shock at the nomination, Cheatley said: &#8220;I was sitting in the bath and all these messages were coming through and I&#8217;m like, &#8216;what is this?&#8217;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I sent the image to my family group chat, and no-one had really reacted.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;So I got myself ready, went downstairs and I&#8217;m like, &#8216;have you just seen what has happened?&#8217;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I still don&#8217;t think I&#8217;ve accepted it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I was sat in Tesco earlier in the car park thinking &#8216;is this real? What is going on?'&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It was not the first time Cheatley had attempted an overhead kick, and she came close at former&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":378896,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[221,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-378895","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-soccer","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115549455186297293","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=378895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378895\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/378896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=378895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=378895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=378895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}