9 March 2026
Big League Soccer has provided lifetime bans to midfielder Derrick Jones and winger Yaw Yeboah for betting offenses.
Yeboah, 28, signed for Chinese Super League side last month after his agreement with Los Angeles FC was ended in January.
Jones, 29, was launched from his contract by Columbus Crew last November.
A statement from MLS said that the players were found to have actually “taken part in substantial gambling on soccer, including by themselves groups” during the 2024 and 2025 seasons.
MLS kept in mind that on one celebration both players positioned 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.
Jones and Yeboah were team-mates at Columbus Crew in the 2024 season.
“MLS likewise identified that the players most likely shared secret information with other bettors about their intent to draw yellow cards,” included the statement from the league.
“No proof was recognized that suggested 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 however 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 spent 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