Introduce this Weekend Division Squad Boasting 1,800 Top-Flight Matches

What do you enhance a excellent experienced squad that have claimed back-to-back championships, including a league-cup double with 30 victories from thirty-two matches?

Recruit a raft of former professionals that have played at the highest tier of club football and international football as you target additional honors.

A Greater Manchester side fields an amateur veterans team with 9 former Premier League footballers in their current squad.

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

The team Vets Over-35s are located in south Manchester and compete in the Cheshire Veterans League Premier Division.

Their roster this campaign boasts nine ex- top-flight footballers, with a combined 1,801 elite appearances.

This elite squad also includes 222 Premier League goals and over 320 international caps.

They feature one forward, who scored thirty-seven goals in 117 games for his former club after signing for them for nine million pounds from Bundesliga club Freiburg in January 2012.

He made his first appearance for Wythenshawe in their most recent home match versus reigning title holders Collegiate Old Boys and netted every one of the six goals in a six-two victory - including a half-hour opening period triple.

The squad for this campaign also features former professionals such as English and Anfield forward Emile Heskey, Hull City and Burnley FC midfielder George Boyd, Toffees striker Oumar Niasse, Wigan defender Maynor Figueroa, City duo Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and top-flight championship victors Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

Collectively, the former Premier League footballers have secured 15 significant honors and transferred for total transfer sums of around £123 million.

Famous Names and Global Players

Stephen Ireland began turning out for the team in pre-season this season through good mate and present Wythenshawe teammate Blake Norton, and the former Irish player then asked other ex-pros, who all compete in a weekly small-sided game, to participate.

Former Senegal forward Oumar Niasse, who netted 12 scores in 65 Premier League matches for Everton and still attends their home games, also had his debut versus the opposition - who are located in the city and wear an Everton warm-up gear as their uniform.

"My mate Stephen said 'join and have a game, it's good fun'," commented Niasse.

"After that he told me we were facing a team from the city and the shock I had when I noticed them wearing Blue shirts - I say this is strange for me!

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

"Those fans who turn up and see are pleased and to make a day if they see us competing there and to ask us questions - it's more like the pleasure of us getting a place we can play, with structure of course."

So great is the squad depth at Wythenshawe, Niasse made his first game at full-back.

"That's a bit different but then, I love running and just move forward - I'm not defending that much," he added.

"I warn my defender 'I'm not staying' and that I'm just going to keep running.

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

'Surreal Experience

In addition to the forward's six goals on his first game, Stephen Ireland has netted eight in three games for Wythenshawe, while Boyd hit 5 on his debut match and Lescott, a centre-half by position, notched a hat-trick in one match up front.

The team are leading of the Premier Division with 3 wins from 3 and a GD of plus nineteen.

One opponent, 38, who features on the flank for Collegiate OB, came up against former Wigan defender Figueroa on the weekend - and had to explain his nine-year-old son who Heskey was.

He has played at 2 global tournaments for Honduras, in as well as playing in more than two hundred top-flight matches.

"The news was spreading like a rumor they had these ex-Premier League players," said Barrow.

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

"Even Heskey came on and he's has 60-odd English caps.

"We held our own for a solid twenty minutes but then we had a player dismissed and it was tough.

"Our group really have not stopped talking about it - I was phoning my mum and sibling on the way home.

"They were all dead sound, shaking our hands after the match - it was like playing a bunch of regular guys.

"Now we are eager for the return match."

'We'll Still Take the Title'

The manager coaches the Collegiate veterans side, who won the Premier Division championship the previous campaign, along with Paul Maguire.

"We went one-nil up and had a