Meet this Weekend Division Squad Boasting Nearly Two Thousand English Top Division Games

What can you improve a excellent veteran squad that have won back-to-back titles, including a league-cup double with thirty wins from 32 games?

Bring in a raft of former pro players that have competed at the top level of club and global soccer as you aim for further trophies.

A Greater Manchester team has an non-professional vets team with 9 former top-flight footballers in their active lineup.

Two Hundred Twenty-Two Premier League Goals, Three Hundred Twenty-Five Global Appearances

The team Veterans Over 35s are situated in southern Manchester and play in the Cheshire-based Veterans League Premier Tier.

The lineup this campaign features nine ex- top-flight players, with a collective 1,801 Premier League matches.

This star-studded squad also boasts 222 Premier League scores and over 320 global appearances.

The squad include Papiss Cisse, who notched thirty-seven scores in over 100 games for his former club after moving to them for nine million pounds from Bundesliga side SC Freiburg in 2012.

Cisse had his first appearance for Wythenshawe in their most recent home game against defending title holders their rivals and netted all six goals in a 6-2 victory - featuring a half-hour first-half hat-trick.

Wythenshawe's roster for this campaign also features ex- professionals such as English and Anfield striker Emile Heskey, Hull and Burnley winger George Boyd, Toffees striker Oumar Niasse, Wigan Athletic full-back Maynor Figueroa, City duo Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and Premier League championship victors Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

Together, the former Premier League players have won 15 major honors and transferred for total transfer fees of approximately £123m.

Well-Known Figures and International Players

Stephen Ireland started turning out for the team in pre-season this summer through good friend and current team player Blake Norton, and the former Republic of Ireland midfielder then asked additional ex-pros, who all play in a weekly nine-a-side game, to participate.

Former Senegalese forward Oumar Niasse, who netted 12 scores in 65 top-flight games for the Toffees and even now goes to their home games, also made his debut against Collegiate OB - who are located in the city and wear an Blue training kit as their uniform.

"My friend Stephen Ireland said 'come and have a game, it's a laugh'," said Niasse.

"After that he informed me we were facing a side from Liverpool and the shock I had when I noticed them sporting Blue kits - I say this is wrong for me!

"If you still love football and you know you can still play, wherever you can play, what are you going to choose?

"Those spectators who come and watch are pleased and to make someone's day if they watch us playing there and to pose us queries - it's more like the joy of us getting somewhere we can enjoy football, with structure of course."

So great is the bench strength at Wythenshawe, he made his debut at full-back.

"That's a bit unusual but then, I love running and just move forward - I'm not defending that much," he said.

"I tell my defender 'I'm not hanging back' and that I'm just going to continue attacking.

"The running is what I'm looking for. It's enjoyable."

'Surreal Scenario

In addition to Cisse's six scores on his first game, Stephen Ireland has netted 8 in three appearances for the side, while George Boyd hit 5 on his debut match and Lescott, a centre-half by position, scored a hat-trick in one game as a striker.

The team are top of the Top Tier with three wins from three and a goal difference of +19.

Paul Barrow, 38, who plays on the flank for the opposition, faced ex- Wigan defender Maynor Figueroa on the weekend - and had to explain his nine-year-old boy who Emile Heskey was.

Figueroa has appeared at 2 World Cups for Honduras, in as well as featuring in over two hundred Premier League games.

"The news was spreading like a rumor they had all these former top-flight players," remarked the player.

"I think I was a bit awestruck playing against him to be honest.

"Also Heskey came on and he's has 60-odd England caps.

"Our side competed well for a good twenty mins but then we had a player sent off and it was tough.

"Our group really haven't ceased talking about it - I was calling my mum and brother on the way home.

"They were all friendly, shaking our hands after the game - it was like facing a group of normal fellas.

"Now we are eager for the return match."

We Will Still Take the Title'

Andy Kirby coaches the Collegiate vets side, who secured the Premier Tier championship the previous campaign, together with his co-manager.

"Our team scored 1-0 ahead and had a