MLS Bans Yeboah

9 March 2026


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


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 released from his contract by Columbus Crew last November.


A statement from MLS said that the players were discovered to have actually "participated in extensive gambling on soccer, consisting of on their own groups" throughout the 2024 and 2025 seasons.


MLS kept in mind that on one event both players put bets on Jones getting a yellow card - which then happened - in a match for Columbus Crew against New York City Red Bulls on 19 October 2024.


Jones and Yeboah were team-mates at Columbus Crew in the 2024 season.


"MLS also figured out that the gamers likely shared secret information with other wagerers about their intent to draw yellow cards," added the statement from the league.


"No proof was recognized that recommended any of these betting 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 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 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