{"id":291096,"date":"2025-11-14T12:27:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T12:27:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/291096\/"},"modified":"2025-11-14T12:27:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T12:27:07","slug":"puskas-and-marta-awards-declan-rice-lamine-yamal-and-amateur-brentford-forward-nominated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/291096\/","title":{"rendered":"Puskas and Marta Awards: Declan Rice, Lamine Yamal and amateur Brentford forward nominated"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brentford women’s forward Ashley Cheatley has been included alongside Declan Rice and Lamine Yamal on Fifa’s shortlist for the best goals of the past year.<\/p>\n

The world governing body have announced the nominees for the Puskas and Marta Awards with Cheatley’s brilliant overhead kick in the Women’s FA Cup up for the latter.<\/p>\n

Playing against Ascot United in November 2024, 30-year-old Cheatley controlled a bobbling pass into the box, flicked the ball up and acrobatically finished with her back to goal.<\/p>\n

The goal puts Cheatley, who plays for the Bees in the fifth tier of the English women’s pyramid, in exulted company alongside a great in Marta and Lizbeth Ovalle, the most expensive player<\/a> in the history of the women’s game.<\/p>\n

Brazil forward Marta is in contention for the women’s prize that was named in her honour for a superb solo effort in the US National Women’s Soccer League.<\/p>\n

The 39-year-old ran from inside the centre circle before feigning to shoot, taking two defenders out of the game simultaneously, and calmly rounding the goalkeeper.<\/p>\n

Manchester City’s Khadija Shaw and Mariona Caldentey of Arsenal are also in the running for the Marta Award for goals scored against Hammerby and Lyon, respectively.<\/p>\n

Another standout goal on the shortlist came from Ovalle for Tigres in Mexican Liga MX Femenil.<\/p>\n

The Mexico winger, now of Orlando Pride, twisted in mid-air as she met a near-post cross with a stunning backheeled finish that arced up and over the helpless Guadalajara goalkeeper to find the far corner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brentford women’s forward Ashley Cheatley has been included alongside Declan Rice and Lamine Yamal on Fifa’s shortlist for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":291097,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[403,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-291096","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-soccer","9":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=291096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291096\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/291097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=291096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=291096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=291096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}