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Yaw Yeboah and Derrick Jones, two MLS players, have been banned for life for bets placed in 2024 and 2025. According to the North American league, however, there is no evidence to suggest that the outcome of a match was affected.
Two MLS players, the North American soccer league, have been banned for life for sports betting, some on their own games, the organization announced on Monday.
Ghanaian international Yaw Yeboah (28), who won the championship with the Columbus Crew in 2023, and American-born Ghanaian Derrick Jones (29), who has played in MLS since 2016, have been suspended for bets placed in 2024 and 2025, MLS explained in a statement. "There is no evidence to suggest that these bets affected the outcome of any match," MLS added.
"The players likely shared confidential information with other bettors."
On one occasion, October 19, 2024, the two players bet that Jones would receive a yellow card, which indeed happened. MLS also concluded that "the players likely shared confidential information with other bettors," specifically regarding their intention to receive a yellow card.
Trained at Manchester City, Yeboah had a brief stint in Ligue 1 with Lille (2015-2016), before playing in the Netherlands, Spain, Poland, then joining the Columbus Crew and MLS in 2022. Yeboah had signed with LAFC of French goalkeeper Hugo Lloris in 2025, before having his contract terminated in January.
Derrick Jones played for Philadelphia, Nashville, Houston, Charlotte, and then the Columbus Crew, joining them in 2024 the season following their championship title. Both players had been provisionally suspended by MLS since last October.
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Betting scandals are on the rise in the world of sports in the United States, a country where the practice was recently legalized in a majority of states. In November, two players from MLB, the premier baseball league, were charged with fixing games.
At the end of October, coach Chauncey Billups and player Terry Rozier, two NBA figures, were implicated in two cases of illegal gambling and betting.
A former baseball player was also found guilty in February of obstruction of justice and lying to investigators in an illegal betting case.
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