{"id":290407,"date":"2023-10-07T23:15:36","date_gmt":"2023-10-07T23:15:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportsloveme.com\/?p=290407"},"modified":"2023-10-07T23:15:36","modified_gmt":"2023-10-07T23:15:36","slug":"sheffield-united-pay-tribute-to-maddy-cusack-with-moment-of-applause","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportsloveme.com\/soccer\/sheffield-united-pay-tribute-to-maddy-cusack-with-moment-of-applause\/","title":{"rendered":"Sheffield United pay tribute to Maddy Cusack with moment of applause"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Sheffield United pay tribute to Maddy Cusack with moment of applause at Bramall Lane as fans leave flowers and shirts outside the ground ahead of Women&#8217;s Championship clash<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Maddy Cusack passed away in September as Sheffield United&#8217;s vice-captain<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Players and those in the ground on Saturday observed a moment of applause\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Cusack was also a marketing executive at the club she had called her &#8216;home&#8217;<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Sheffield United paid tribute to Maddy Cusack ahead of their Women&#8217;s Championship clash with London City.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Cusack, 27, passed away in September, and was the Blades longest serving player, having also served as a marketing executive at the Yorkshire club, before being named vice-captain earlier this year.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Tributes poured in from around the football world for the player, who was just starting a sixth season at a club left &#8216;devastated&#8217; by her death.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Ahead of kick-off at Bramall Lane on Saturday, fans left flowers and shirts emblazoned with Cusack&#8217;s No 8 outside the ground.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Players were also seen with t-shirts bearing Cusack&#8217;s likeness on the front during the warm-ups, with a message displayed on the big screens in the corners of Bramall Lane.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/07\/14\/76276043-0-image-a-14_1696683982788.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Tributes were left for Sheffield United stalwart Maddy Cusack following her death at 27<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/07\/14\/76276041-0-image-a-13_1696683979438.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Fans left Sheffield United shirts outside Bramall Lane ahead of the clash with London City<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/07\/14\/76276039-0-image-a-12_1696683975642.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Players warmed up in t-shirts bearing Cusack&#8217;s likeness on the front following her death<\/p>\n<p>Prior to kick-off, both Championship sides and those in the ground observed an emotional moment of applause in Cusack&#8217;s honour.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Her heartbroken brother, Richard Cusack, paid tribute following her death, tweeting: &#8216;My beautiful sister. May you rest in peace Maddy.&#8217;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A statement on the club&#8217;s official website read: &#8216;Sheffield United Football Club is devastated to report the sad news of the passing of Maddy Cusack.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Maddy, a women&#8217;s team player since 2019 and marketing executive for the Football Club, passed away on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;A respected player, Maddy, 27, last season reached the milestone of 100 appearances for Sheffield United Women.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Additionally, she was a valued colleague in the offices at Bramall Lane, moving over from the Sheffield United Community Foundation to the club in 2021 to help market all areas of the Blades.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Cusack joined Sheffield United halfway through their first campaign in the women&#8217;s second tier in January 2019 and last season became the first woman to reach 100 appearances for the club.<\/p>\n<p>Cusack had only signed a new contract with the Blades in July, describing the club as her &#8216;home&#8217;.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/07\/14\/76276199-0-image-a-15_1696684481561.jpg\" height=\"422\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Players from both Sheffield United and London City paid their own tribute to Cusack with a moment of applause<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/07\/14\/75727473-0-The_former_talented_midfielder_had_just_started_her_sixth_season-a-16_1696684876897.jpg\" height=\"465\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>The former talented midfielder had just started her sixth season with the club being named vice-captain earlier this year\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/football\/article-12605043\/Sheffield-United-Maddy-Cusack-Bramall-Lane-fans-Womens-Championship.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sheffield United pay tribute to Maddy Cusack with moment of applause at Bramall Lane as fans leave flowers and shirts<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":290406,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8 - 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