Discover the Sunday Division Team With Over 1,800 Premier League Games

What do you enhance a outstanding experienced squad who have secured back-to-back titles, featuring a league-cup double with thirty wins from thirty-two matches?

Recruit a group of former pro players who have performed at the top level of club and global soccer as you target additional honors.

A Manchester club boasts an non-professional veterans squad with 9 ex- Premier League footballers in their active lineup.

222 Top Division Scores, 325 International Caps

Wythenshawe Vets Over 35s are based in southern Manchester and play in the Cheshire-based Vets Division Premier Division.

Their roster this campaign features 9 former top-flight players, with a combined 1,801 Premier League matches.

The elite roster also contains over 220 top division scores and 325 international appearances.

They include one forward, who notched thirty-seven goals in 117 games for his former club after moving to them for nine million pounds from Bundesliga club SC Freiburg in January 2012.

He made his first appearance for the team in their last home-field game against reigning champions Collegiate Old Boys and scored every one of the six scores in a six-two victory - including a 32-minute first-half triple.

The squad for this campaign also includes ex- pros such as English and Anfield forward Emile Heskey, Hull City and Burnley midfielder George Boyd, Toffees forward Oumar Niasse, Wigan Athletic full-back Maynor Figueroa, Manchester City pair Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and top-flight title victors Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

Together, the ex- Premier League footballers have secured fifteen big honors and transferred for combined transfer sums of approximately £123m.

Famous Figures and Global Players

Ireland began playing for the team in preseason this summer through close friend and present team teammate Blake Norton, and the ex- Irish midfielder then asked other ex-pros, who all compete in a midweek small-sided match, to join in.

Former Senegal forward Oumar Niasse, who scored 12 goals in sixty-five top-flight games for Everton and still goes to their matches at Goodison Park, also made his debut against Collegiate OB - who are located in the city and wear an Everton training kit as their strip.

"A mate Stephen Ireland said 'come and have a game, it's good fun'," said Niasse.

"After that he informed me we were facing a side from the city and the surprise I had when I saw them wearing Blue shirts - I say this is strange for me!

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

"The spectators who turn up and see are happy and to make a moment if they watch us competing there and to pose us questions - it's really about the joy of us getting a place we can play, with structure of course."

Such is the squad depth at the club, Niasse made his debut at full-back.

"That's a bit different but then, I enjoy running and just move inside - I'm not defending that much," he said.

"I warn my defender 'I'm not hanging back' and that I'm just going to keep attacking.

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

Unreal Feeling

In addition to Cisse's 6 goals on his first game, Stephen Ireland has scored eight in 3 games for Wythenshawe, while George Boyd hit five on his first match and Joleon Lescott, a defender by trade, notched a hat-trick in one match up front.

Wythenshawe are leading of the Premier Division with 3 wins from three and a GD of plus nineteen.

Paul Barrow, 38, who plays on the wing for Collegiate OB, came up against ex- Latics full-back Maynor Figueroa on Sunday - and had to explain his nine-year-old boy who Heskey was.

He has played at two World Cups for his country, in as well as playing in over two hundred top-flight matches.

"The news was spreading like a rumor they had all these ex-Premier League players," said Barrow.

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

"Also Emile [Heskey] came on and he's got over 60 England appearances.

"Our side held our own for a solid twenty mins but then we had a player dismissed and it was hard.

"Our group really have not ceased talking about it - I was calling my mother and sibling on the journey home.

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

"Now we are eager for the second fixture."

We Will Still Win the Title'

Andy Kirby manages the opposition vets team, who won the Premier Division championship the previous campaign, along with Paul Maguire.

"We went one-nil ahead and had a