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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Leander Schaerlaeckens

MLS’s Polymarket deal looks even worse after players’ gambling bans

Yaw Yeboah last played for LAFC in MLS.
Yaw Yeboah last played for LAFC in MLS. Photograph: Stacy Bengs/AP

The timing of the suspensions was unfortunate. Or perhaps it was karmically inevitable.

Forty-two days after Major League Soccer announced a new partnership with Polymarket – a prediction platform that lets its users bet on just about anything, including whether, when, and where one country will bomb another – a press release went out. A pair of Ghanaian-born former MLS players, Derrick Jones and Yaw Yeboah, had been banned from the league for life for betting on games, including their own.

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