Introduce the Sunday League Squad With Nearly Two Thousand Top-Flight Appearances

What can you boost a excellent veteran squad who have claimed consecutive championships, featuring a league-cup double with 30 victories from thirty-two matches?

Recruit a collection of former pro players that have performed at the highest level of club and global soccer as you target further honors.

One Manchester side boasts an amateur veterans squad with nine ex- Premier League footballers in their active lineup.

222 Top Division Scores, Three Hundred Twenty-Five International Caps

The team Veterans Over 35s are situated in south Manchester and compete in the Cheshire Veterans Division Top Tier.

The lineup this campaign boasts 9 former Premier League players, with a collective nearly 1,800 elite games.

This star-studded squad also includes 222 top division scores and 325 global caps.

The squad include Papiss Cisse, who scored 37 goals in 117 games for his former club after signing for them for nine million pounds from German league club SC Freiburg in January 2012.

He made his debut for Wythenshawe in their last home game versus reigning title holders their rivals and netted every one of the six scores in a six-two victory - featuring a 32-minute first-half triple.

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

In total, the former top-flight footballers have won fifteen big trophies and transferred for combined transfer fees of approximately £123 million.

Famous Figures and International Players

Stephen Ireland began playing for the team during preseason this season through close mate and current team teammate Blake Norton, and the former Irish player then asked additional ex-pros, who all play in a weekly nine-a-side game, to join in.

Ex- Senegal striker Niasse, who netted 12 scores in 65 Premier League matches for the Toffees and still goes to their matches at Goodison Park, also made his debut against the opposition - who are located in the city and use an Everton warm-up gear as their strip.

"A friend Stephen said 'join and play, it's a laugh'," commented Niasse.

"Then he informed me we were facing a side from Liverpool and the shock I had when I saw them sporting Everton kits - I thought this is strange for me!

"If you still love the game and you know you can still play, anywhere you can play, what are you going to choose?

"Those fans who come and see are pleased and to make a day if they see us playing there and to pose us queries - it's more like the joy of us getting a place we can enjoy football, with structure of course."

Such is the squad depth at Wythenshawe, he had his first game at full-back.

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

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

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

Unreal Scenario

Along with Cisse's 6 scores on debut, Stephen Ireland has netted 8 in three games for Wythenshawe, while Boyd hit 5 on his debut appearance and Lescott, a centre-half by trade, scored a hat-trick in one game up front.

The team are top of the Premier Division with three wins from three and a goal difference of plus nineteen.

One opponent, thirty-eight, who features on the flank for the opposition, came up against ex- Wigan defender Maynor Figueroa on the weekend - and had to explain his young son who Heskey was.

Figueroa has played at two World Cups for his country, in as well as playing in over 200 Premier League matches.

"It was going round like wildfire they had these ex-Premier League players," remarked the player.

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

"Also Emile [Heskey] came on and he's has over 60 English caps.

"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 talking about it - I was phoning my mother and sibling on the way home.

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

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

We Will Still Win the League'

Andy Kirby coaches the Collegiate veterans side, who won the Premier Division title the previous campaign, along with Paul Maguire.

"We scored one-nil ahead and had a