Meet this Weekend League Team Boasting Nearly Two Thousand Premier League Matches

What do you enhance a excellent experienced side that have secured back-to-back championships, featuring a league-cup double boasting thirty wins from thirty-two games?

Sign a raft of former pro players who have performed at the top tier of club and global soccer as you aim for more silverware.

A Greater Manchester team has an non-professional veterans squad with 9 former Premier League footballers in their current squad.

222 Top Division Goals, Three Hundred Twenty-Five Global Appearances

The team Vets Over-35s are located in south the city and compete in the Cheshire Vets Division Premier Tier.

Their roster this season features 9 ex- top-flight footballers, with a collective 1,801 top-flight matches.

The elite squad also contains 222 Premier League scores and over 320 global appearances.

The squad include one forward, who scored 37 goals in 117 appearances for Newcastle United after signing for them for £9m from German league club SC Freiburg in 2012.

Cisse made his debut for Wythenshawe in their last home-field match versus defending champions Collegiate Old Boys and scored all six scores in a 6-2 victory - including a 32-minute opening period hat-trick.

The team for this campaign also features ex- pros such as English and Liverpool striker Emile Heskey, Hull City and Burnley FC winger George Boyd, Everton forward Oumar Niasse, Wigan Athletic full-back Maynor Figueroa, Manchester City duo Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and Premier League championship winners Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

In total, the former Premier League footballers have won fifteen major trophies and transferred for total transfer fees of about £123 million.

Famous Names and Global Stars

Ireland started playing for the side in pre-season this summer through close friend and present team teammate Blake Norton, and the ex- Republic of Ireland player then asked other ex-pros, who all compete in a weekly nine-a-side game, to participate.

Ex- Senegal striker Niasse, who netted twelve scores in 65 Premier League matches for the Toffees and even now goes to their matches at Goodison Park, also made his debut against Collegiate OB - who are located in the city and use an Blue warm-up gear as their uniform.

"My mate Stephen Ireland told me 'join and play, it's good fun'," said the striker.

"After that he told me we were playing a team from the city and the shock I had when I noticed them wearing Blue kits - I thought this is wrong for me!

"If you still enjoy the game and you feel you can still do it, anywhere you can play, what are you going to choose?

"Those people who turn up and watch are pleased and to make a day if they see us competing there and to pose us questions - it's really about the pleasure of us getting somewhere we can play, with structure of course."

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

"It's a bit different but then, I love running and just move inside - I'm not staying back that much," he added.

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

"That running is what I'm looking for. It's good fun."

Unreal Scenario

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

The team are leading of the Top Division with 3 wins from 3 and a GD of +19.

Paul Barrow, 38, who plays on the wing for the opposition, faced ex- Wigan defender Maynor Figueroa on the weekend - and had to tell his young boy who Emile Heskey was.

He has played at 2 global tournaments for Honduras, in as well as playing in more than two hundred Premier League matches.

"The news was spreading like wildfire they had all these former top-flight players," said Barrow.

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

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

"Our side held our own for a good 20 mins but then we had a man dismissed and it was tough.

"We literally haven't ceased chatting about it - I was phoning my mother and sibling on the way home.

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

"Now we are eager for the return fixture."

We Will Still Win the League'

The manager coaches the Collegiate vets team, who secured the Premier Division championship last season, together with Paul Maguire.

"We scored 1-0 up and had a