{"id":134613,"date":"2026-03-10T16:59:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T16:59:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/134613\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T16:59:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T16:59:09","slug":"former-bethlehem-steel-fc-philadelphia-union-soccer-player-banned-from-mls-for-betting-on-games-bethelehm-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/134613\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Bethlehem Steel FC, Philadelphia Union soccer player banned from MLS for betting on games | Bethelehm Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BETHLEHEM, Pa. &#8211; Former Bethlehem Steel FC and Philadelphia Union soccer player Derrick Jones has received a lifetime suspension from the MLS.<\/p>\n<p>Jones along with fellow midfielder and teammate Yaw Yeboah both were given lifetime bans Monday for betting on games, including their own.<\/p>\n<p>The MLS specifically noted that on one occasion both players placed bets on Jones receiving a yellow card &#8211; which then happened &#8211; in a match for Columbus Crew against the New York Red Bulls when they were teammates.<\/p>\n<p>The MLS says there was no evidence the bets\u00a0affected the outcome of any game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BETHLEHEM, Pa. &#8211; Former Bethlehem Steel FC and Philadelphia Union soccer player Derrick Jones has received a lifetime&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":134614,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154,28,10227],"class_list":["post-134613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news","tag-pennsylvania","tag-philadelphia-union"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134613\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/134614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}