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
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
The winner of the Marta Award will be determined through a combination of a fan vote and a panel of ‘Fifa legends’, with the public vote closing on 28 November.<\/p>\n
Speaking of her shock at the nomination, Cheatley said: “I was sitting in the bath and all these messages were coming through and I’m like, ‘what is this?’<\/p>\n
“I sent the image to my family group chat, and no-one had really reacted.<\/p>\n
“So I got myself ready, went downstairs and I’m like, ‘have you just seen what has happened?’<\/p>\n
“I still don’t think I’ve accepted it.<\/p>\n
“I was sat in Tesco earlier in the car park thinking ‘is this real? What is going on?'”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It was not the first time Cheatley had attempted an overhead kick, and she came close at former…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":291718,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[403,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-291717","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\/291717","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=291717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291717\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/291718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=291717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=291717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=291717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}