Meet this Weekend League Squad Boasting Nearly Two Thousand English Top Division Matches

What do you improve a excellent experienced team that have claimed back-to-back titles, including a double triumph boasting thirty victories from 32 matches?

Bring in a collection of former professionals that have competed at the elite tier of club football and international soccer as you aim for further silverware.

A Manchester team has an amateur veterans team with 9 ex- Premier League footballers in their current squad.

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

The team Vets Over 35s are located in southern the city and compete in the Cheshire Vets League Premier Tier.

The lineup this season includes 9 ex- Premier League footballers, with a combined nearly 1,800 Premier League matches.

This high-profile team also boasts over 220 Premier League scores and over 320 international appearances.

They feature Papiss Cisse, who notched thirty-seven scores in over 100 games for his former club after joining them for £9m from Bundesliga side Freiburg in January 2012.

Cisse made his debut for the team in their most recent home-field game versus reigning title holders Collegiate Old Boys and scored every one of the six scores in a 6-2 win - featuring a half-hour first-half triple.

Wythenshawe's squad for this season also includes former professionals such as England and Liverpool striker Emile Heskey, Hull and Burnley FC winger George Boyd, Toffees striker Oumar Niasse, Wigan defender Maynor Figueroa, City pair Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and top-flight title victors Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

Collectively, the former top-flight footballers have won 15 big honors and transferred for combined transfer sums of approximately £123 million.

Well-Known Names and Global Players

Ireland started playing for the team during preseason this summer through good friend and present team player Blake Norton, and the ex- Republic of Ireland midfielder then invited other ex-pros, who all play in a weekly small-sided game, to participate.

Ex- Senegalese forward Niasse, who scored 12 goals in 65 top-flight matches for Everton and still goes to their home games, also made his debut against the opposition - who are located in the city and use an Everton training kit as their strip.

"My mate Stephen Ireland said 'join and have a game, it's good fun'," said the striker.

"Then he informed me we were playing a side from the city and the surprise I had when I saw them sporting Blue shirts - I say this is wrong for me!

"When you still enjoy the game and you feel you can still play, anywhere you can kick a ball, what are you going to do?

"Those spectators who come and see are happy and to give a moment if they watch us competing there and to pose us queries - it's really about the joy of us getting a place we can enjoy football, with structure of course."

So great is the bench strength at the club, he had his first game at full-back.

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

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

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

'Surreal Feeling

Along with Cisse's 6 goals on his first game, Ireland has netted 8 in three appearances for Wythenshawe, while Boyd hit 5 on his first match and Joleon Lescott, a centre-half by position, scored a hat-trick in one game up front.

The team are top of the Top Tier with 3 victories from 3 and a GD of plus nineteen.

One opponent, thirty-eight, who features on the wing for the opposition, came up against former Latics defender Maynor Figueroa on the weekend - and had to tell his nine-year-old son who Emile Heskey was.

Figueroa has appeared at two global tournaments for Honduras, in addition to playing in more than 200 top-flight matches.

"It was spreading like a rumor they had these ex-Premier League players," said the player.

"I think I was a little starstruck playing against Figueroa to be honest.

"Even Heskey came on and he's got over 60 England appearances.

"We competed well for a solid twenty mins but then we had a man sent off and it was hard.

"Our group really haven't ceased 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 return fixture."

'We'll Still Take the Title'

The manager coaches the opposition veterans side, who won the Premier Tier championship last season, along with his co-manager.

"We scored one-nil ahead and had a