MLS Bans Yeboah

9 March 2026


Major League Soccer has actually given life time restrictions to Jones and winger Yaw Yeboah for betting offences.


Yeboah, 28, signed for Chinese Super League side Qingdao Hainiu last month after his contract with Los Angeles FC was terminated in January.


Jones, 29, was launched from his agreement by Columbus Crew last November.


A declaration from MLS stated that the players were discovered to have actually "participated in comprehensive gambling on soccer, consisting of by themselves teams" throughout the 2024 and 2025 seasons.


MLS noted that on one event both players put bets on Jones getting a yellow card - which then happened - in a match for Columbus Crew against New York City Red Bulls on 19 October 2024.


Jones and Yeboah were team-mates at Columbus Crew in the 2024 season.


"MLS also identified that the players most likely shared confidential information with other gamblers about their intent to draw yellow cards," included the statement from the league.


"No evidence was determined that recommended any of these wagering activities affected the result 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 played for Spanish side Numancia and Polish team Wisła Krakow before spells at Columbus Crew and LAFC.


Ghana-born Jones has actually invested his whole career in the United States having actually played for Philadelphia Union, Nashville SC, Houston Dynamo, Charlotte FC and Columbus Crew.


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


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16 August 2025