Meet this Weekend League Team Featuring Nearly Two Thousand Top-Flight Matches

How can you enhance a excellent experienced team who have won consecutive championships, featuring a league-cup double with thirty victories from 32 games?

Recruit a collection of ex- pro players that have competed at the elite level of club football and global football as you pursue additional trophies.

A Manchester side boasts an amateur vets squad with nine ex- top-flight players in their active lineup.

222 Premier League Scores, Three Hundred Twenty-Five Global Caps

Wythenshawe Vets Over 35s are based in southern the city and compete in the Cheshire-based Vets Division Top Tier.

The squad list this campaign boasts 9 ex- top-flight footballers, with a total nearly 1,800 elite appearances.

This star-studded team also contains 222 top division scores and 325 global caps.

The squad feature Papiss Cisse, who netted thirty-seven scores in 117 games for Newcastle United after moving to them for nine million pounds from Bundesliga club Freiburg in January 2012.

Cisse made his first appearance for the team in their last home-field game against defending title holders Collegiate Old Boys and netted all six goals in a 6-2 win - including a half-hour opening period triple.

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

Together, the former Premier League players have secured fifteen big honors and moved for total transfer sums of approximately £123m.

Household Figures and International Stars

Ireland began turning out for the team in preseason this summer through close friend and present Wythenshawe teammate Blake Norton, and the former Irish player then invited other ex-pros, who all compete in a weekly small-sided match, to participate.

Former Senegalese striker Oumar Niasse, who scored twelve goals in sixty-five top-flight games for Everton and even now attends their matches at Goodison Park, also had his first appearance against Collegiate OB - who are located in Liverpool and wear an Blue warm-up gear as their strip.

"My friend Stephen Ireland said 'come and play, it's good fun'," said the striker.

"Then he told me we were facing a team from Liverpool and the surprise I had when I saw them wearing Everton shirts - I thought this is strange for me!

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

"Those people who come and see are happy and to give someone's day if they see us playing there and to ask us questions - it's more like the joy of us having a place we can enjoy football, with structure of course."

Such is the bench strength at the club, he made his first game at defender.

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

"I warn my defender 'I'm not staying' and that I'm just going to keep running.

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

'Surreal Experience

Along with Cisse's 6 scores on his first game, Ireland has netted 8 in 3 games for the side, while Boyd hit 5 on his debut appearance and Lescott, a defender by trade, notched a triple in one game up front.

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

Paul Barrow, thirty-eight, who plays on the flank for the opposition, came up against ex- Wigan full-back Maynor Figueroa on Sunday - and had to explain his young son who Emile Heskey was.

Figueroa has played at two World Cups for Honduras, in addition to featuring in over 200 top-flight matches.

"It was going round like wildfire they had all these former top-flight players," said the player.

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

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

"We held our own for a solid twenty minutes but then we had a man sent off and it was hard.

"We literally have not stopped talking about it - I was phoning my mother and brother on the way home.

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

"Now we are eager for the second fixture."

We Will Still Win the Title'

Andy Kirby manages 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