Discover the Weekend Division Team Boasting Nearly Two Thousand Premier League Matches

What can you improve a stellar experienced side who have claimed consecutive titles, featuring a league-cup double boasting thirty wins from thirty-two games?

Recruit a group of ex- professionals that have competed at the top tier of club and international soccer as you aim for additional honors.

A Manchester side has an non-professional veterans squad with nine former top-flight players in their present squad.

222 Top Division Goals, Three Hundred Twenty-Five International Caps

The team Veterans Over-35s are situated in southern Manchester and compete in the Cheshire Veterans Division Top Division.

The roster this season boasts nine former top-flight players, with a collective 1,801 Premier League games.

This elite roster also boasts over 220 Premier League goals and 325 international appearances.

They include one forward, who notched thirty-seven scores in 117 appearances for his former club after signing for them for nine million pounds from German league club SC Freiburg in January 2012.

Cisse had his debut for the team in their last home game against reigning title holders Collegiate Old Boys and netted every one of the six goals in a six-two victory - featuring a half-hour opening period triple.

Wythenshawe's squad for this season also includes ex- professionals such as English and Liverpool forward Emile Heskey, Hull and Burnley FC midfielder George Boyd, Toffees forward Oumar Niasse, Wigan full-back Maynor Figueroa, City pair Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and Premier League championship winners Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

In total, the former Premier League footballers have won fifteen significant honors and transferred for combined transfer sums of approximately £123 million.

Well-Known Figures and International Stars

Stephen Ireland started playing for the side during pre-season this summer through close friend and present team player Blake Norton, and the former Irish player then asked other former professionals, who all play in a weekly nine-a-side game, to participate.

Former Senegal striker Niasse, who scored twelve scores in sixty-five Premier League games for the Toffees and even now attends their home games, also had his first appearance versus Collegiate OB - who are located in the city and wear an Blue warm-up gear as their uniform.

"A mate Stephen Ireland said 'join and play, it's a laugh'," said Niasse.

"After that he told me we were playing a team from Liverpool and the shock I had when I noticed them wearing Blue kits - I thought this is wrong for me!

"If you still enjoy football and you feel you can still do it, wherever you can play, what are you going to choose?

"Those people who come and watch are happy and to give someone's day if they watch us playing there and to pose us questions - it's really about the joy of us having somewhere we can play, with structure of course."

So great is the bench strength at the club, he had his debut at defender.

"It's a little unusual but then, I enjoy sprinting and just go inside - I'm not staying back that much," he added.

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

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

Unreal Experience

Along with the forward's 6 scores on debut, Stephen Ireland has scored 8 in 3 games for Wythenshawe, while George Boyd hit five on his first match and Lescott, a defender by trade, notched a triple in one game as a striker.

Wythenshawe are leading of the Premier Tier with 3 victories from three and a goal difference of +19.

One opponent, 38, who features on the flank for Collegiate OB, came up against ex- Latics defender Maynor Figueroa on Sunday - and had to tell his young son who Emile Heskey was.

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

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

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

"Even Heskey got on and he's has over 60 English caps.

"We competed well for a good 20 minutes but then we had a player sent off and it was hard.

"We literally haven't stopped talking about it - I was calling my mother and sibling on the journey home.

"They were all dead sound, shaking our hands after the match - it was like playing a bunch of normal guys.

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

We Will Still Take the League'

Andy Kirby manages the opposition vets side, who secured the Top Tier title last season, together with his co-manager.

"We went 1-0 ahead and had a