MLS Bans Yeboah

9 March 2026


Big League Soccer has provided lifetime 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 agreement by Columbus Crew last November.


A declaration from MLS stated that the gamers were found to have actually "taken part in extensive gaming on soccer, including by themselves groups" throughout the 2024 and 2025 seasons.


MLS kept in mind that on one occasion both players placed bets on Jones getting a yellow card - which then happened - 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 gamers likely shared secret information with other wagerers about their intent to draw yellow cards," included the statement from the league.


"No evidence was identified that suggested any of these betting activities affected the outcome of a match."


Yeboah, who has actually been topped by Ghana, was at Manchester City from 2014 to 2018 however 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 in the United States having actually 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