Main League Soccer has given lifetime bans to midfielder Derrick Jones and winger Yaw Yeboah for betting offences.
Yeboah, 28, signed for Chinese language Tremendous 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.
An announcement from MLS stated that the gamers had been discovered to have “engaged in in depth playing on soccer, together with on their very own groups” through 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 towards New York Purple Bulls on 19 October 2024.
Jones and Yeboah had been team-mates at Columbus Crew within the 2024 season.
“MLS additionally decided that the gamers doubtless shared confidential data with different bettors about their intent to attract yellow playing cards,” added the assertion from the league.
“No proof was recognized that urged any of those betting actions affected the result of a match.”
Yeboah, who has been capped by Ghana, was at Manchester Metropolis 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 group Wisła Krakow earlier than spells at Columbus Crew and LAFC.
Ghana-born Jones has spent his total profession in america 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 stage.
