Forward Santino Quaranta (D.C. United) scored five goals and added two assists in six games and was named the Most Valuable Player in leading the U.S. under-17 national team to a third-place finish at the Theesen International Tournament in Bielefeld, Germany. Quaranta’s 12 points made him the leading scorer of the tournament, which had the U-17s playing two games per day from June 2-4 against six reserve teams from the German Bundesliga. After going 2-0-2 in their first four matches, the U-17s lost on penalty kicks to Werder Bremen in the semi-finals before recovering to win another penalty-kick shootout over Eintracht Frankfurt in the third-place match.