All-News4JAX boys soccer: Mandarin’s Sasha Maric shined doing the ‘hard work’

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Sasha Maric was never after the headlines or the recognition. The Mandarin defender was perfectly content in his spot in the back of the area’s most relentless defense.

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Maric tarted his soccer journey as a striker and a good one, but his personality had other plans. Maric was far more conditioned to enjoy the dirty work like marking a team’s top scorer or locking down a swath in front of the goal. That realization that he was going to be a defender came in middle school, with the help of his coaches at Florida Elite, and later, head coach Jason Cooley at Mandarin. At 6-3, Maric’s height was far more conducive to being a power forward on the basketball team, a sport he tried kid, but was pulled back to the soccer pitch and his spot in the back.

Maric said that it clicked he could actually be a player who contributed at that position when he made the varsity team at Mandarin as a freshman.

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