Discover this Weekend League Team Featuring Nearly Two Thousand English Top Division Games

How do you boost a outstanding veteran squad who have won consecutive titles, featuring a league-cup double with 30 wins from thirty-two games?

Recruit a collection of ex- pro players who have played at the elite level of club and global football as you pursue additional honors.

A Greater Manchester team boasts an amateur vets team with 9 former top-flight players in their current squad.

222 Premier League Goals, Three Hundred Twenty-Five International Caps

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

The roster this season boasts nine ex- Premier League players, with a total 1,801 Premier League matches.

The star-studded roster also includes over 220 top division goals and over 320 international caps.

The squad include Papiss Cisse, who scored 37 goals in 117 appearances for his former club after moving to them for £9m from German league club SC Freiburg in January 2012.

He had his first appearance for Wythenshawe in their most recent home-field game versus defending title holders their rivals and netted all six goals in a 6-2 win - including a half-hour opening period hat-trick.

The roster for this campaign also features ex- pros such as English and Liverpool striker Emile Heskey, Hull City and Burnley winger George Boyd, Toffees striker Oumar Niasse, Wigan Athletic full-back Maynor Figueroa, City pair Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and top-flight title victors Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

In total, the ex- Premier League players have won fifteen significant honors and moved for combined transfer fees of approximately £123 million.

Household Figures and Global Players

Stephen Ireland started turning out for the side in preseason this summer through good mate and present team teammate Blake Norton, and the former Irish midfielder then asked additional former professionals, who all compete in a midweek small-sided game, to participate.

Former Senegalese forward Niasse, who netted 12 scores in 65 top-flight games for Everton and still attends their matches at Goodison Park, also had his first appearance versus Collegiate OB - who are located in the city and use an Everton training kit as their uniform.

"A friend Stephen said 'come and play, it's good fun'," commented Niasse.

"Then he told me we were playing a team from the city and the surprise I had when I saw them wearing Blue kits - I thought this is wrong for me!

"When you still love football and you feel you can still play, wherever you can play, what are you going to do?

"The fans who turn up and see are pleased and to make a moment if they watch us playing there and to ask us questions - it's really about the joy of us getting somewhere we can enjoy football, with organisation of course."

Such is the strength in depth at the club, he made his debut at defender.

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

"I tell my defender 'I'm not staying' and that I'm just going to continue running.

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

Unreal Experience

In addition to Cisse's 6 scores on debut, Stephen Ireland has netted 8 in 3 games for Wythenshawe, while Boyd hit five on his debut appearance and Joleon Lescott, a defender by position, notched a hat-trick in one match as a striker.

Wythenshawe are top of the Top Division with 3 victories from three and a GD of plus nineteen.

One opponent, 38, who features on the wing for Collegiate OB, faced former Wigan full-back Maynor Figueroa on Sunday - and had to explain his young son who Heskey was.

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

"The news was going round like wildfire they had all these ex-Premier League players," remarked the player.

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

"Even Emile [Heskey] got on and he's has over 60 English appearances.

"Our side competed well for a solid 20 mins but then we had a player sent off and it was tough.

"Our group literally have not ceased chatting about it - I was calling my mum and brother on the journey home.

"They were all friendly, shaking our hands after the match - it was like facing a bunch of regular guys.

"Now we can't wait for the second fixture."

We Will Still Win the Title'

The manager coaches the Collegiate veterans side, who secured the Top Tier championship the previous campaign, along with Paul Maguire.

"We went 1-0 ahead and had a