Discover this Weekend League Team With Nearly Two Thousand Top-Flight Games

What do you boost a excellent veteran team who have secured back-to-back titles, including a league-cup double boasting thirty victories from 32 matches?

Bring in a group of former pro players who have performed at the top level of club and global football as you pursue further silverware.

One Manchester side has an non-professional veterans squad with 9 former Premier League footballers in their current squad.

222 Top Division Scores, 325 Global Appearances

The team Veterans Over-35s are situated in southern the city and compete in the Cheshire-based Vets Division Premier Tier.

Their lineup this season features 9 former top-flight players, with a combined 1,801 elite appearances.

The elite roster also includes 222 Premier League scores and 325 global caps.

The squad include Papiss Cisse, who netted 37 scores in over 100 appearances for his former club after moving to them for nine million pounds from Bundesliga club Freiburg in January 2012.

He had his debut for Wythenshawe in their last home game against defending title holders their rivals and netted all six goals in a six-two win - including a half-hour opening period triple.

The team for this season also features former professionals such as English and Liverpool striker Emile Heskey, Hull City and Burnley FC midfielder George Boyd, Toffees striker Oumar Niasse, Wigan full-back Maynor Figueroa, City pair Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and top-flight title victors Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

Together, the former Premier League footballers have won fifteen significant trophies and transferred for combined transfer fees of approximately £123 million.

Well-Known Names and International Players

Stephen Ireland began turning out for the side during preseason this summer through close friend and current Wythenshawe player Blake Norton, and the former Irish midfielder then invited additional ex-pros, who all play in a midweek nine-a-side game, to join in.

Ex- Senegal striker Niasse, who scored twelve scores in 65 top-flight matches for Everton and still attends their home games, also made his first appearance versus the opposition - who are based in the city and wear an Everton training kit as their uniform.

"My friend Stephen Ireland told me 'come and have a game, it's good fun'," commented the striker.

"Then he informed me we were playing a side from the city and the surprise I had when I noticed them wearing Blue kits - I say this is strange for me!

"If you still love the game and you know you can still play, wherever you can kick a ball, what are you going to choose?

"Those fans who turn up and watch are pleased and to make a moment if they see us playing there and to pose us questions - it's really about the pleasure of us having somewhere we can play, with structure of course."

So great is the bench strength at the club, Niasse had his first game at defender.

"That's a little unusual but then, I love running and just go forward - I'm not defending that much," he added.

"I tell my centre-back 'I'm not staying' and that I'm just going to keep attacking.

"The movement is what I'm seeking. It's good fun."

Dreamlike' Scenario

Along with the forward's six scores on debut, Stephen Ireland has netted 8 in three games for Wythenshawe, while Boyd scored 5 on his first match and Joleon Lescott, a defender by trade, scored a hat-trick in one game up front.

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

One opponent, thirty-eight, who features on the wing for Collegiate OB, came up against former Latics defender Maynor Figueroa on the weekend - and had to explain his young son who Emile Heskey was.

Figueroa has played at 2 global tournaments for Honduras, in as well as featuring in more than 200 Premier League matches.

"It was spreading like a rumor they had all these ex-Premier League stars," remarked Barrow.

"I felt I was a little awestruck facing him to be honest.

"Even Emile [Heskey] came on and he's has 60-odd England appearances.

"We held our own for a solid twenty minutes but then we had a player dismissed and it was hard.

"We really have not stopped talking about it - I was phoning my mother and brother on the way home.

"The opponents were all really nice, shaking our hands after the match - it was like facing a bunch of normal guys.

"Now we are eager for the second fixture."

'We'll Still Take the League'

The manager coaches the Collegiate veterans side, who won the Premier Tier title the previous campaign, together with Paul Maguire.

"We scored 1-0 up and had a