{"id":866134,"date":"2026-06-14T06:26:56","date_gmt":"2026-06-14T06:26:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/866134\/"},"modified":"2026-06-14T06:26:56","modified_gmt":"2026-06-14T06:26:56","slug":"mandarins-robert-calazans-earns-gatorade-soccer-player-of-the-year-honor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/866134\/","title":{"rendered":"Mandarin\u2019s Robert Calazans earns Gatorade soccer player of the year honor"},"content":{"rendered":"

Robert Calazans of Mandarin was named the Gatorade Florida boys soccer player of the year on Friday. (Contributed by Calazans family) (Calazans family, Calazans family)<\/p>\n

JACKSONVILLE, Fla.<\/strong> \u2013 Mandarin soccer star Robert Calazans added one more big award to his trophy case. <\/p>\n

Calazans was named the Gatorade Player of the Year on Friday, capping his career with one of the biggest state awards out there. Calazans, also the Varsity 4 All-News4JAX player of the year<\/a>, scored 33 goals and added 14 assists to lead the Mustangs to the Class 6A state championship game for the second consecutive season. The senior forward has signed with UNF. <\/p>\n

Midfielders Gary Lewis (Orange Park, 2002-03) and Trey Langlois (Bishop Kenny, 2014-15), and forward Reed Davis (Fleming Island, 2016-17 and \u201917-18) are the only other local winners of the Gatorade state award since it begin in 1985.<\/p>\n

Copyright 2026 by WJXT News4JAX – All rights reserved.<\/p>\n

About the AuthorJustin Barney headshotJustin Barney<\/a><\/p>\n

Justin Barney joined News4Jax in February 2019, but he\u2019s been covering sports on the First Coast for more than 20 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Robert Calazans of Mandarin was named the Gatorade Florida boys soccer player of the year on Friday. (Contributed…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":866135,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5136],"tags":[5229,3188,723,26251,7310,221,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,150539],"class_list":["post-866134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-america","tag-fl","tag-florida","tag-high-school","tag-jacksonville","tag-soccer","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa","tag-varsity-4"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116747045835588038","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/866134","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=866134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/866134\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/866135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=866134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=866134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=866134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}