Meet the Weekend Division Team Featuring Nearly Two Thousand Top-Flight Appearances

How can you boost a excellent experienced squad who have won back-to-back championships, including a league-cup double with 30 victories from thirty-two matches?

Bring in a collection of former professionals that have played at the highest level of club football and international soccer as you aim for additional honors.

One Manchester team boasts an non-professional veterans team with nine ex- top-flight footballers in their present lineup.

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

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

Their lineup this season includes nine former top-flight players, with a total 1,801 Premier League games.

This elite team also contains over 220 Premier League scores and over 320 international appearances.

The squad feature one forward, who scored thirty-seven scores in over 100 games for his former club after signing for them for £9m from Bundesliga side SC Freiburg in 2012.

He had his debut for Wythenshawe in their most recent home game against defending title holders their rivals and netted all six goals in a six-two win - featuring a 32-minute first-half hat-trick.

Wythenshawe's team for this season also includes ex- professionals such as England and Liverpool striker Emile Heskey, Hull City and Burnley midfielder George Boyd, Everton forward Oumar Niasse, Wigan full-back Maynor Figueroa, Manchester City duo Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and top-flight title winners Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

Collectively, the ex- Premier League players have secured fifteen big honors and transferred for combined transfer sums of about £123 million.

Well-Known Figures and International Stars

Stephen Ireland started turning out for the team in pre-season this summer through good mate and present team teammate Blake Norton, and the former Republic of Ireland midfielder then asked other former professionals, who all compete in a weekly nine-a-side game, to join in.

Ex- Senegal forward Niasse, who netted twelve scores in 65 Premier League matches for the Toffees and even now goes to their home games, also had his first appearance versus Collegiate OB - who are located in Liverpool and use an Blue warm-up gear as their uniform.

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

"After that he informed me we were playing a team from Liverpool and the shock I had when I noticed them sporting Everton shirts - I say this is strange for me!

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

"Those spectators who turn up and see are happy and to give a day if they watch us playing there and to pose us queries - it's more like the joy of us getting somewhere we can play, with organisation of course."

Such is the strength in depth at Wythenshawe, he had his debut at defender.

"It's a bit different but then, I love running and just go 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 looking for. It's good fun."

Unreal Scenario

Along with Cisse's six scores on debut, Stephen Ireland has scored eight in 3 games for Wythenshawe, while Boyd hit 5 on his first match and Joleon Lescott, a centre-half by position, scored a hat-trick in one match up front.

The team are leading of the Premier Division with 3 victories from three and a GD of plus nineteen.

Paul Barrow, 38, who plays on the wing for the opposition, came up against ex- Latics defender Figueroa on Sunday - and had to tell his young boy who Emile Heskey was.

Figueroa has played at two World Cups for his country, in as well as featuring in over 200 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 little starstruck facing him to be honest.

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

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

"Our group really haven't stopped talking about it - I was phoning my mum and sibling on the way home.

"The opponents were all dead sound, shaking our hands after the match - it was like facing a group of normal fellas.

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

'We'll Still Win the Title'

Andy Kirby manages the Collegiate veterans side, who secured the Top Division title the previous campaign, together with Paul Maguire.

"We went one-nil ahead and had a