Major League Soccer has given lifetime bans to midfielder Derrick Jones and winger Yaw Yeboah for betting offences.
Yeboah, 28, signed for Chinese Super League aspect Qingdao Hainiu final month after his contract with Los Angeles FC was terminated in January.
Jones, 29, was launched from his contract by Columbus Crew final November.
A press release from MLS stated that the gamers have been discovered to have “engaged in extensive gambling on soccer, including on their own teams” in the course of the 2024 and 2025 seasons.
MLS famous that on one event each gamers positioned bets on Jones receiving a yellow card – which then occurred – in a match for Columbus Crew in opposition to New York Red Bulls on 19 October 2024.
Jones and Yeboah have been team-mates at Columbus Crew within the 2024 season.
“MLS also determined that the players likely shared confidential information with other bettors about their intent to draw yellow cards,” added the assertion from the league.
“No evidence was identified that suggested any of these betting activities affected the outcome of a match.”
Yeboah, who has been capped by Ghana, was at Manchester City from 2014 to 2018 however didn’t make a first-team look and had mortgage spells at Lille, Twente and Oviedo.
He then performed for Spanish aspect Numancia and Polish staff Wisła Krakow earlier than spells at Columbus Crew and LAFC.
Ghana-born Jones has spent his complete profession within the United States having performed for Philadelphia Union, Nashville SC, Houston Dynamo, Charlotte FC and Columbus Crew.
Jones was capped by the USA at under-20 and under-23 degree.
