Introduce this Weekend Division Club With Over 1,800 English Top Division Matches

What do you boost a outstanding experienced team that have won consecutive championships, including a league-cup double with thirty victories from 32 matches?

Sign a raft of former professionals who have competed at the highest level of club and international football as you pursue additional honors.

One Greater Manchester side boasts an non-professional vets team with nine ex- Premier League footballers in their present lineup.

Two Hundred Twenty-Two Premier League Goals, Three Hundred Twenty-Five Global Caps

Wythenshawe Vets Over-35s are situated in southern the city and play in the Cheshire Veterans League Premier Tier.

The squad list this campaign boasts 9 former top-flight footballers, with a combined nearly 1,800 elite matches.

This high-profile squad also contains 222 top division goals and over 320 international caps.

They feature Papiss Cisse, who netted thirty-seven goals in 117 games for his former club after signing for them for £9m from German league club SC Freiburg in 2012.

Cisse made his first appearance for Wythenshawe in their most recent home match versus defending title holders Collegiate Old Boys and scored all six goals in a 6-2 victory - featuring a half-hour first-half triple.

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

Collectively, the ex- top-flight players have claimed 15 significant trophies and transferred for combined transfer fees of approximately £123 million.

Famous Names and Global Stars

Ireland began turning out for the team in pre-season this summer through close mate and current Wythenshawe player Blake Norton, and the ex- Irish midfielder then invited additional ex-pros, who all play in a weekly nine-a-side match, to join in.

Former Senegal striker Niasse, who netted 12 goals in 65 top-flight matches for Everton and still attends their home games, also made his debut against Collegiate OB - who are located in Liverpool and wear an Everton training kit as their strip.

"My friend Stephen told me 'join and play, it's a laugh'," commented Niasse.

"After that he informed me we were facing a side from Liverpool and the shock I had when I noticed them sporting Blue shirts - I thought this is strange for me!

"When you still love the game and you know you can still do it, anywhere you can kick a ball, what are you going to choose?

"Those fans who come and see are happy and to make someone's moment if they watch us competing there and to ask us questions - it's more like the joy of us having somewhere we can play, with structure of course."

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

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

"I tell my defender 'I'm not hanging back' and that I'm just going to keep attacking.

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

Unreal Experience

Along with the forward's 6 goals on debut, Stephen Ireland has netted eight in 3 games for Wythenshawe, while George Boyd scored five on his debut appearance and Joleon Lescott, a defender by trade, notched a hat-trick in one match as a striker.

The team are leading of the Top Division with three wins from 3 and a goal difference of plus nineteen.

One opponent, thirty-eight, who features on the flank for the opposition, came up against ex- Latics full-back Maynor Figueroa on Sunday - and had to explain his young boy who Emile Heskey was.

He has played at 2 World Cups for Honduras, in as well as playing in over 200 Premier League matches.

"The news was spreading like wildfire they had these ex-Premier League stars," remarked the player.

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

"Even Heskey got on and he's got over 60 English appearances.

"Our side held our own for a solid twenty mins but then we had a man dismissed and it was hard.

"Our group literally have not ceased chatting about it - I was calling my mum and sibling on the journey home.

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

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

We Will Still Take the League'

The manager manages the Collegiate veterans team, who secured the Top Division title the previous campaign, along with his co-manager.

"We scored 1-0 ahead and had a