Meet this Weekend Division Team Boasting Nearly Two Thousand English Top Division Appearances

How do you boost a excellent veteran squad that have claimed back-to-back championships, including a double triumph with 30 wins from thirty-two matches?

Recruit a group of ex- professionals who have played at the elite tier of club football and international football as you pursue further trophies.

A Greater Manchester team boasts an amateur vets team with nine former Premier League players in their current lineup.

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

Wythenshawe Vets Over-35s are situated in south the city and compete in the Cheshire-based Vets League Premier Tier.

Their lineup this season boasts nine former top-flight footballers, with a total over 1,800 top-flight appearances.

The high-profile squad also includes over 220 Premier League goals and over 320 international appearances.

The squad feature one forward, who netted thirty-seven scores in 117 appearances for his former club after joining them for £9m from German league club SC Freiburg in January 2012.

Cisse had his debut for Wythenshawe in their last home match versus reigning title holders their rivals and scored every one of the six goals in a 6-2 win - featuring a half-hour opening period hat-trick.

Wythenshawe's squad for this campaign also features ex- professionals such as English and Anfield forward Emile Heskey, Hull and Burnley FC winger George Boyd, Toffees forward Oumar Niasse, Wigan Athletic defender Maynor Figueroa, City duo Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and top-flight championship winners Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

In total, the former top-flight players have secured 15 significant honors and transferred for total transfer fees of about £123 million.

Famous Names and International Players

Stephen Ireland began turning out for the side in pre-season this season through close mate and present Wythenshawe teammate Blake Norton, and the ex- Republic of Ireland player then asked other ex-pros, who all play in a weekly small-sided game, to participate.

Ex- Senegal forward Niasse, who scored twelve scores in 65 Premier League matches for the Toffees and still goes to their home games, also had his first appearance against Collegiate OB - who are located in Liverpool and use an Blue training kit as their uniform.

"A friend Stephen told me 'come and have a game, it's a laugh'," said Niasse.

"Then he informed me we were playing a team from Liverpool and the surprise I had when I saw them wearing Blue kits - I say 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 do?

"Those fans who turn up and watch are happy and to make a moment if they see us competing there and to ask us questions - it's really about the pleasure of us having a place we can enjoy football, with organisation of course."

So great is the bench strength at the club, he made his first game at defender.

"That's a little unusual but then, I enjoy running and just go inside - I'm not defending that much," he said.

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

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

Dreamlike' Experience

In addition to Cisse's 6 scores on his first game, Stephen Ireland has scored eight in 3 appearances for Wythenshawe, while George Boyd hit five on his first match and Joleon Lescott, a defender by trade, notched a hat-trick in one match as a striker.

The team are top of the Top Tier with three victories from three and a goal difference of +19.

Paul Barrow, 38, who plays on the flank for the opposition, faced ex- Wigan defender Figueroa on Sunday - and had to tell his young son who Heskey was.

He has appeared at two World Cups for Honduras, in as well as featuring in more than two hundred Premier League games.

"It was spreading like a rumor they had these ex-Premier League stars," said the player.

"I think I was a bit starstruck facing him to be honest.

"Even Emile [Heskey] came on and he's has over 60 England appearances.

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

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

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

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

We Will Still Take the Title'

The manager coaches the Collegiate veterans side, who secured the Premier Division title last season, along with his co-manager.

"We went one-nil ahead and had a