Discover the Weekend League Team Boasting Nearly Two Thousand English Top Division Matches

How do you enhance a stellar veteran side who have won consecutive titles, featuring a double triumph with thirty victories from thirty-two matches?

Sign a raft of ex- professionals that have played at the elite tier of club and international football as you aim for further honors.

One Greater Manchester side boasts an amateur vets squad with 9 former top-flight footballers in their current lineup.

Two Hundred Twenty-Two Top Division Scores, Three Hundred Twenty-Five International Appearances

Wythenshawe Veterans Over 35s are located in southern the city and compete in the Cheshire Vets League Top Division.

Their lineup this campaign includes 9 ex- Premier League players, with a total over 1,800 Premier League games.

This high-profile squad also contains over 220 top division goals and 325 global caps.

They feature one forward, who netted 37 goals in over 100 appearances for Newcastle United after moving to them for nine million pounds from German league club SC Freiburg in January 2012.

Cisse had his first appearance for the team in their most recent home-field match against defending champions their rivals and scored every one of the six goals in a 6-2 win - featuring a half-hour first-half triple.

Wythenshawe's team for this season also includes former professionals such as English and Anfield striker Emile Heskey, Hull City and Burnley FC winger George Boyd, Everton striker Oumar Niasse, Wigan Athletic defender Maynor Figueroa, City duo Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and top-flight championship victors Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

In total, the ex- top-flight players have claimed fifteen big honors and moved for combined transfer fees of around £123 million.

Famous Figures and Global Stars

Stephen Ireland began playing for the team in pre-season this summer through close mate and present team teammate Blake Norton, and the ex- Republic of Ireland player then asked additional former professionals, who all play in a midweek nine-a-side match, to join in.

Former Senegalese forward Niasse, who netted twelve goals in sixty-five Premier League matches for Everton and still attends their home games, also had his first appearance against Collegiate OB - who are located in the city and wear an Blue warm-up gear as their strip.

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

"Then he told me we were playing a team from the city and the shock I had when I saw them sporting Everton shirts - I thought this is wrong for me!

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

"Those spectators 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 joy of us getting somewhere we can enjoy football, with organisation of course."

So great is the strength in depth at Wythenshawe, Niasse had his debut at full-back.

"That's a bit different but then, I enjoy sprinting and just go forward - I'm not staying back that much," he said.

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

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

Unreal Scenario

In addition to Cisse's six scores on his first game, Ireland has scored eight in 3 games for Wythenshawe, while George Boyd hit 5 on his first appearance and Joleon Lescott, a defender by position, scored a triple in one match as a striker.

The team are leading of the Premier Division with 3 victories from 3 and a goal difference of +19.

Paul Barrow, 38, who features on the wing for the opposition, came up against ex- Latics defender Figueroa on the weekend - and had to explain his young son who Heskey was.

He has appeared at two World Cups for his country, in addition to featuring in over two hundred top-flight matches.

"It was going round like wildfire they had these former top-flight stars," remarked the player.

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

"Also Emile [Heskey] got on and he's has 60-odd English caps.

"Our side held our own for a good twenty minutes but then we had a player dismissed and it was tough.

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

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

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

'We'll Still Win the Title'

The manager manages the opposition vets team, who secured the Premier Tier title the previous campaign, together with Paul Maguire.

"Our team went 1-0 up and had a