Discover the Weekend Division Team Featuring Nearly Two Thousand Premier League Appearances

What do you enhance a excellent experienced team who have claimed back-to-back titles, featuring a league-cup double with thirty victories from 32 games?

Recruit a raft of former professionals who have performed at the highest tier of club and international football as you pursue further silverware.

A Manchester side boasts an amateur vets squad with 9 ex- Premier League footballers in their present squad.

Two Hundred Twenty-Two Top Division Goals, 325 International Caps

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

Their lineup this season includes 9 former Premier League footballers, with a combined over 1,800 top-flight games.

This high-profile roster also contains 222 top division goals and 325 international caps.

They feature Papiss Cisse, who scored 37 scores in 117 appearances for his former club after moving to them for nine million pounds from German league side Freiburg in January 2012.

Cisse made his first appearance for the team in their last home game against defending champions their rivals and scored every one of the six scores in a six-two win - including a 32-minute first-half hat-trick.

The team for this campaign also features ex- professionals such as England and Anfield forward Emile Heskey, Hull and Burnley midfielder George Boyd, Toffees forward Oumar Niasse, Wigan Athletic defender Maynor Figueroa, Manchester City pair Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and top-flight championship winners Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

Together, the ex- top-flight footballers have secured 15 major trophies and transferred for total transfer fees of around £123 million.

Household Figures and Global Players

Stephen Ireland began playing for the team during pre-season this summer through close mate and current Wythenshawe player Blake Norton, and the former Republic of Ireland player then asked other former professionals, who all play in a weekly small-sided game, to participate.

Ex- Senegal striker 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 based in Liverpool and wear an Blue warm-up gear as their strip.

"My friend Stephen Ireland said 'join and have a game, it's a laugh'," commented the striker.

"After that he told me we were playing a side from Liverpool and the shock I had when I saw them sporting Everton shirts - I say this is wrong for me!

"If you still enjoy football and you know you can still play, anywhere you can play, what are you going to choose?

"The spectators who turn up and watch are pleased and to give a day if they see us competing there and to pose us questions - it's really about the joy of us getting somewhere we can play, with organisation of course."

So great is the strength in depth at the club, Niasse had his first game at defender.

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

"I warn my centre-back 'I'm not staying' and that I'm just going to continue attacking.

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

Unreal Experience

Along with the forward's 6 scores on his first game, Ireland has scored 8 in three games for the side, while Boyd hit 5 on his first match and Joleon Lescott, a defender by trade, scored a triple in one game up front.

The team are leading of the Premier Division with three wins from three and a goal difference of plus nineteen.

One opponent, 38, who plays on the flank for Collegiate OB, faced former Wigan full-back Maynor Figueroa on Sunday - and had to tell his young son who Heskey was.

Figueroa has played at two global tournaments for Honduras, in as well as playing in more than 200 top-flight matches.

"The news was going round like a rumor they had these former top-flight players," said Barrow.

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

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

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

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

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

"Now we are eager for the second match."

We Will Still Take the League'

The manager manages the opposition veterans side, who secured the Premier Division title last season, along with Paul Maguire.

"We scored 1-0 ahead and had a