MLS Bans Yeboah

9 March 2026


Major League Soccer has given 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 terminated in January.


Jones, 29, was released from his contract by Columbus Crew last November.


A statement from MLS said that the gamers were found to have actually "taken part in comprehensive gaming on soccer, including by themselves groups" during the 2024 and 2025 seasons.


MLS kept in mind that on one event both gamers positioned bets on Jones receiving 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 gamers most likely shared secret information with other gamblers about their intent to draw yellow cards," included the statement from the league.


"No proof was recognized that suggested any of these betting activities affected the outcome 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 look and had loan spells 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 entire profession in the United States having bet Philadelphia Union, Nashville SC, Houston Dynamo, Charlotte FC and .


Jones was topped by the USA at under-20 and under-23 level.


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16 August 2025