Major League Soccer has given lifetime bans to midfielder Derrick Jones and winger Yaw Yeboah for betting offences.<\/p>\n
Yeboah, 28, signed for Chinese Super League side Qingdao Hainiu last month after his contract with Los Angeles FC was terminated in January.<\/p>\n
Jones, 29, was released from his contract by Columbus Crew last November.<\/p>\n
A statement from MLS said that the players were found to have “engaged in extensive gambling on soccer, including on their own teams” during the 2024 and 2025 seasons.<\/p>\n
MLS noted that on one occasion both players placed bets on Jones receiving a yellow card – which then happened – in a match for Columbus Crew against New York Red Bulls on 19 October 2024.<\/p>\n
Jones and Yeboah were team-mates at Columbus Crew in the 2024 season.<\/p>\n
“MLS also determined that the players likely shared confidential information with other bettors about their intent to draw yellow cards,” added the statement from the league.<\/p>\n
“No evidence was identified that suggested any of these betting activities affected the outcome of a match.”<\/p>\n
Yeboah, who has been capped by Ghana, was at Manchester City from 2014 to 2018 but did not make a first-team appearance and had loan spells at Lille, Twente and Oviedo.<\/p>\n
He then played for Spanish side Numancia and Polish team Wis\u0142a Krakow before spells at Columbus Crew and LAFC.<\/p>\n
Ghana-born Jones has spent his entire career in the United States having played for Philadelphia Union, Nashville SC, Houston Dynamo, Charlotte FC and Columbus Crew.<\/p>\n
Jones was capped by the USA at under-20 and under-23 level.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Major League Soccer has given lifetime bans to midfielder Derrick Jones and winger Yaw Yeboah for betting offences.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":466901,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-466900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-football","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=466900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466900\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/466901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=466900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=466900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=466900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}