Introduce the Weekend League Club Boasting Nearly Two Thousand English Top Division Matches

How do you enhance a excellent experienced squad that have secured back-to-back titles, featuring a league-cup double boasting thirty victories from thirty-two games?

Sign a collection of former professionals that have performed at the elite level of club and global football as you target more trophies.

One Manchester club has an amateur veterans team with nine former top-flight players in their present squad.

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

The team Veterans Over-35s are located in south the city and compete in the Cheshire-based Vets Division Top Division.

Their lineup this season features 9 ex- Premier League players, with a combined over 1,800 top-flight games.

This star-studded squad also boasts over 220 top division scores and 325 international caps.

The squad include Papiss Cisse, who netted thirty-seven scores in over 100 appearances for his former club after moving to them for nine million pounds from German league club SC Freiburg in 2012.

Cisse made his first appearance for Wythenshawe in their most recent home match against defending champions their rivals and netted all six scores in a 6-2 victory - featuring a 32-minute first-half triple.

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

Together, the ex- Premier League players have secured fifteen major honors and transferred for combined transfer sums of approximately £123 million.

Famous Names and Global Players

Ireland began playing for the side during preseason this summer through good mate and current Wythenshawe teammate Blake Norton, and the ex- Irish player then asked other ex-pros, who all play in a weekly small-sided game, to join in.

Ex- Senegalese striker Oumar Niasse, who scored 12 scores in 65 top-flight matches for the Toffees and even now goes to their home games, also made his debut versus Collegiate OB - who are located in the city and use an Blue training kit as their uniform.

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

"After that he informed me we were facing a team from Liverpool and the shock I had when I saw them wearing Blue kits - I say this is strange for me!

"If you still enjoy football and you feel you can still play, wherever you can play, what are you going to do?

"The fans who come and watch are happy and to give a day if they watch us competing there and to ask us questions - it's really about the pleasure of us getting a place we can play, with structure of course."

So great is the bench strength at Wythenshawe, Niasse made his first game at defender.

"It's a little unusual but then, I love sprinting and just move 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.

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

'Surreal Feeling

Along with Cisse's six scores on debut, Ireland has netted eight in 3 games for the side, while Boyd hit 5 on his debut match and Joleon Lescott, a centre-half by position, scored a hat-trick in one match as a striker.

The team are top 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, came up against ex- Wigan defender Maynor Figueroa on the weekend - and had to explain his nine-year-old son who Emile Heskey was.

Figueroa has appeared at 2 World Cups for Honduras, in addition to featuring in over two hundred Premier League games.

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

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

"Also Heskey got on and he's has 60-odd England appearances.

"We competed well for a good twenty mins but then we had a player dismissed and it was hard.

"We literally have not ceased talking about it - I was phoning my mum and brother on the journey home.

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

"Now we can't wait for the second fixture."

We Will Still Win the Title'

The manager coaches the opposition veterans side, who secured the Top Division championship last season, along with his co-manager.

"Our team went one-nil ahead and had a