MLS Bans Yeboah

9 March 2026


Big League Soccer has provided life time restrictions 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 statement from MLS said that the players were found to have actually "engaged in substantial gambling on soccer, consisting of on their own teams" during the 2024 and 2025 seasons.


MLS kept in mind that on one event both players positioned bets on Jones receiving a yellow card - which then occurred - in a match for Columbus Crew against New York Bulls on 19 October 2024.


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


"MLS likewise identified that the gamers most likely shared secret information with other gamblers about their intent to draw yellow cards," added the declaration from the league.


"No proof was determined that suggested 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 however 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 group Wisła Krakow before spells at Columbus Crew and LAFC.


Ghana-born Jones has actually spent his whole career in the United States having actually bet 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