MLS Bans Yeboah

9 March 2026


Major League Soccer has provided life time bans to midfielder Derrick Jones and winger Yaw Yeboah for betting offences.


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 launched from his by Columbus Crew last November.


A statement from MLS stated that the gamers were discovered to have actually "participated in extensive gambling on soccer, including on their own teams" during the 2024 and 2025 seasons.


MLS kept in mind that on one event both gamers placed bets on Jones getting 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 determined that the gamers most likely shared secret information with other bettors about their intent to draw yellow cards," added the declaration from the league.


"No evidence was determined that recommended any of these wagering activities impacted the outcome of a match."


Yeboah, who has been topped by Ghana, was at Manchester City from 2014 to 2018 but did not make a first-team appearance 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 invested his whole profession in the United States having 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