BOCA RATON, Fla. -- It's not the end. It's until we meet again.

And if that is anything like this was, then don't make plans for Aug. 19. There could be a pretty good show in Rio de Janeiro's Maracana, the famed stadium that has seen its share of them.

Before moving on to all the necessary caveats about what was and was not on the line Wednesday night inside FAU Stadium, who played and who didn't and whether there really needed to be a stage and shower of confetti afterward, hit pause. This was fun. This was the kind of game that the United States women's national team doesn't get to play very often.

Alex Morgan was named Golden Boot winner, awarded to the top scorer in the SheBelieves Cup, and the Golden Ball, which goes to the event's best overall player. Mike Ehrmann/Getty Images

Maybe because it rarely gets to play one of the only teams, maybe the only team, that really believes it is no worse than its equal. Germany came to play. So the United States got to do the same.

"First of all, it's a physical game, and second of all, it tests us technically," Alex Morgan said of this and any game against Germany. "They're matching us on all different fronts."

And like a victory last summer in the World Cup, a 2-1 win Wednesday brought out the best in the U.S. women.

The win clinched them the SheBelieves Cup. More importantly, the United States got the result by playing the way it wants to play -- and the way Jill Ellis believes gives her team the best chance of becoming the first to win Olympic gold the year after winning the World Cup.

The U.S. women looked as good going forward in the opening 15 to 20 minutes as they had at any point in the tournament, maybe as good as they have since last year's World Cup final. That was true from the opening minute when Carli Lloyd's 40-yard run crescendoed with an at-speed deke on the edge of the 18-yard box and brought the crowd to full volume. But Lloyd couldn't quite put the ensuing shot inside the post. Active on the right flank in a rare start, Christen Press earned herself two quality chances but couldn't find the right angle. Morgan broke loose for chances, half-chances and dangerous-looking no-chances to no avail.

So the game was still scoreless in the 29th minute when Germany's Isabel Kerschowski claimed a giveaway in midfield and fed Anja Mittag near the top of the 18-yard box. Given half a step of freedom by the back line, she buried a shot inside the near post.