MLS Bans Yeboah

9 March 2026


Big League Soccer has actually provided lifetime bans to midfielder Derrick Jones and winger Yaw Yeboah for wagering offenses.


Yeboah, 28, signed for Chinese Super League side Qingdao Hainiu last month after his agreement with Los Angeles FC was ended in January.


Jones, 29, was released from his agreement by Columbus Crew last November.


A declaration from MLS stated that the players were discovered to have actually "taken part in substantial gaming on soccer, consisting of by themselves groups" during the 2024 and 2025 seasons.


MLS kept in mind that on one both players placed bets on Jones receiving a yellow card - which then happened - in a match for Columbus Crew versus New York Red Bulls on 19 October 2024.


Jones and Yeboah were team-mates at Columbus Crew in the 2024 season.


"MLS likewise identified that the gamers likely shared secret information with other gamblers about their intent to draw yellow cards," added the statement from the league.


"No evidence was determined that recommended any of these betting activities affected the result of a match."


Yeboah, who has been capped by Ghana, was at Manchester City from 2014 to 2018 but did not make a first-team look and had loan spells at Lille, Twente and Oviedo.


He then bet Spanish side Numancia and Polish team Wisła Krakow before spells at Columbus Crew and LAFC.


Ghana-born Jones has actually spent his entire profession in the United States having actually bet Philadelphia Union, Nashville SC, Houston Dynamo, Charlotte FC and Columbus Crew.


Jones was topped by the USA at under-20 and under-23 level.


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16 August 2025