KANSAS CITY, Mo. — When then-Manchester City midfielder Sam Mewis last March was ranked the best women’s soccer player in the world by ESPN FC and espnW, the immensely humble and ever-hungry superstar appreciated the honor but essentially shrugged it off. Anybody on that top 50 list could have been No. 1, she said in a recent interview with The Kansas City Star, and such a verdict “just kind of depends on what happens on the day of the vote or whatever.” Plus, for more than 20 years in the game now, she’s fixed her gaze not on where she’s been but on what’s ahead of her: from a seemingly clair…
