Meet this Sunday League Club With Over 1,800 English Top Division Games

What do you enhance a stellar experienced side that have secured back-to-back titles, including a league-cup double boasting 30 victories from 32 games?

Bring in a raft of ex- professionals who have competed at the elite tier of club and international soccer as you pursue additional trophies.

One Greater Manchester team has an amateur veterans team with 9 former Premier League footballers in their present lineup.

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

The team Vets Over 35s are located in south the city and play in the Cheshire-based Vets League Top Tier.

Their lineup this campaign includes 9 ex- Premier League footballers, with a collective 1,801 elite appearances.

This elite squad also includes over 220 Premier League goals and over 320 international caps.

They include one forward, who scored 37 goals in 117 games for his former club after moving to them for nine million pounds from Bundesliga club Freiburg in January 2012.

Cisse had his first appearance for the team in their last home game versus reigning champions their rivals and scored all six scores in a 6-2 victory - including a half-hour opening period triple.

Wythenshawe's roster for this campaign also includes former professionals such as England and Anfield forward Emile Heskey, Hull and Burnley FC winger George Boyd, Toffees striker Oumar Niasse, Wigan defender Maynor Figueroa, Manchester City pair Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and top-flight title winners Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

In total, the ex- top-flight footballers have won fifteen major trophies and transferred for combined transfer fees of about £123 million.

Famous Names and International Players

Stephen Ireland started turning out for the team in pre-season this season through close mate and current Wythenshawe player Blake Norton, and the former Republic of Ireland midfielder then invited other ex-pros, who all play in a weekly nine-a-side game, to participate.

Ex- Senegal striker Oumar Niasse, who scored twelve scores in sixty-five top-flight matches for Everton and even now goes to their matches at Goodison Park, also had his first appearance versus the opposition - who are located in Liverpool and wear an Everton training kit as their strip.

"A friend Stephen Ireland said 'join and play, it's enjoyable'," commented Niasse.

"After that he told me we were facing a side from Liverpool and the shock I had when I saw them sporting Everton shirts - I say this is strange for me!

"When you still enjoy football and you feel you can still play, wherever you can kick a ball, what are you going to do?

"Those spectators who turn up and watch are pleased and to give someone's moment if they see us competing there and to pose us queries - it's really about the joy of us having a place we can enjoy football, with structure of course."

Such is the bench strength at the club, Niasse had his first game at defender.

"That's a little different but then, I enjoy sprinting and just move inside - I'm not defending that much," he added.

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

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

Dreamlike' Scenario

Along with the forward's six scores on debut, Ireland has netted 8 in three appearances for the side, while Boyd scored 5 on his first appearance and Joleon Lescott, a centre-half by trade, scored a triple in one match up front.

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

One opponent, 38, who features on the flank for Collegiate OB, came up against ex- Latics full-back Maynor Figueroa on the weekend - and had to tell his young son who Heskey was.

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

"It was spreading like wildfire they had these ex-Premier League players," said the player.

"I felt I was a little awestruck playing against him to be honest.

"Also Heskey came on and he's got over 60 England appearances.

"Our side competed well for a good 20 mins but then we had a man dismissed and it was hard.

"Our group literally haven't stopped talking about it - I was calling my mother and brother on the journey home.

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

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

We Will Still Take the Title'

Andy Kirby manages the opposition veterans side, who secured the Top Tier championship the previous campaign, along with Paul Maguire.

"We scored 1-0 up and had a