MLS Bans Yeboah

9 March 2026


Big League Soccer has provided life time restrictions to midfielder Derrick Jones and winger Yaw Yeboah for .


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


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


A statement from MLS said that the players were discovered to have actually "engaged in extensive gaming on soccer, including by themselves teams" throughout the 2024 and 2025 seasons.


MLS kept in mind that on one occasion both players positioned bets on Jones getting a yellow card - which then took place - in a match for Columbus Crew against 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 most likely shared personal details with other wagerers about their intent to draw yellow cards," added the statement from the league.


"No proof was determined that recommended any of these betting activities impacted 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 appearance and had loan spells at Lille, Twente and Oviedo.


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


Ghana-born Jones has spent his entire career in the United States having played for 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