MLS Bans Yeboah

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9 March 2026


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


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 gamers were discovered to have "participated in extensive betting on soccer, including on their own groups" throughout the 2024 and 2025 seasons.


MLS kept in mind that on one celebration both gamers put bets on Jones getting a yellow card - which then took place - 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 figured out that the players likely shared secret information with other gamblers about their intent to draw yellow cards," added the declaration from the league.


"No evidence was identified that suggested any of these betting activities impacted the outcome 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 played for Spanish side Numancia and Polish group Wisła Krakow before spells at Columbus Crew and LAFC.


Ghana-born Jones has actually spent his entire career 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