My First Soccer Trophy

My First Soccer Trophy

An object that is quite important to me is my first ever U10 soccer trophy. I got it by playing in a soccer league for the first time, and I continued playing soccer for about a total of five years. Everyone on the team gets a trophy and mine was one of them. The object itself looks like sort of a plastic torch with a spinny soccer ball attached to the middle of the torch and the top of the torch-like figure being a sign that says Milpitas Youth Soccer Club on it. The plastic torch is held by being attached to a rectangular piece of marble that has a label on it saying my name. The plastic torch does not feel that bad, it feels sort of nice for a plastic trophy. The marble is smooth and the label with my name on it feels nice as well. The spinning soccer ball is fun to play with and its light. The plastic has a gold color and the marble has a nice white finish to it with the label attached being black which finishes off the trophy and makes everything fit nicely.

The soccer trophy was significant to me because it was my first ever trophy that I received in my five or six memorable and hardworking years of soccer. I received many other trophies after this but they did not mean as much as this one did. I always thought soccer was such an easy sport before I played and tried the sport itself and I realized I clearly underestimated the sport. I began to realize that this sport is probably one of the hardest sports out there and I was proud to be playing it and receiving a trophy for it. It taught me that practice and dedication does bring you closer to your goals. As I kept receiving trophies, beginning with this first trophy, I began to have more confidence in myself as a person and I was proud of myself that each and every trophy was a milestone that I achieved towards that imaginary goal that was in the back of my head that was simply to be to improve myself as a person. Also, it taught me that even