MLS Bans Yeboah
9 March 2026
Big 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 contract with Los Angeles FC was ended in January.
Jones, 29, was launched from his contract by Columbus Crew last November.
A declaration from MLS said that the players were found to have "participated in substantial gambling on soccer, consisting of by themselves teams" throughout the 2024 and 2025 seasons.
MLS noted that on one event both players positioned 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 wagerers about their intent to draw yellow cards," added the statement from the league.
"No evidence was recognized that recommended any of these betting activities impacted the result of a match."
Yeboah, who has actually been capped by Ghana, was at Manchester City from 2014 to 2018 but did not make a first-team look and had at Lille, Twente and Oviedo.
He then bet Spanish side Numancia and Polish group Wisła Krakow before spells at Columbus Crew and LAFC.
Ghana-born Jones has actually invested his whole profession in the United States having actually played for Philadelphia Union, Nashville SC, Houston Dynamo, Charlotte FC and Columbus Crew.
Jones was capped by the USA at under-20 and under-23 level.
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16 August 2025