Karsten Moran for The New York Times
In July 2015, after the United States women’s national soccer team had won its third World Cup final, securing its place as the dominant women’s international soccer team; after its winning game became the most-watched soccer game in United States history, with an average of 25.4 million viewers (more than the N.B.A. finals, more than any men’s soccer game); after the team returned home to a ticker-tape parade in Manhattan, the first time a woman’s team had been so honored — after all that, the members of the team still had the feeling.