Meet this Sunday Division Club Boasting Over 1,800 Premier League Appearances

How can you enhance a stellar experienced team that have secured consecutive titles, including a double triumph with 30 victories from thirty-two matches?

Bring in a collection of ex- professionals who have performed at the elite level of club football and international football as you target more trophies.

One Greater Manchester club has an non-professional veterans team with 9 ex- top-flight footballers in their active lineup.

Two Hundred Twenty-Two Top Division Goals, Three Hundred Twenty-Five International Caps

The team Veterans Over-35s are located in south the city and compete in the Cheshire Veterans Division Top Division.

The roster this campaign boasts 9 former Premier League players, with a combined nearly 1,800 Premier League appearances.

This high-profile team also includes over 220 top division scores and over 320 global 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 side Freiburg in 2012.

Cisse made his first appearance for the team in their most recent home-field match versus defending champions Collegiate Old Boys and scored all six scores in a six-two win - featuring a half-hour opening period hat-trick.

Wythenshawe's squad for this campaign also includes ex- pros such as England and Liverpool forward Emile Heskey, Hull and Burnley FC winger George Boyd, Everton striker Oumar Niasse, Wigan full-back Maynor Figueroa, Manchester City duo Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and Premier League title victors Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

In total, the former Premier League footballers have claimed fifteen major honors and transferred for total transfer sums of around £123m.

Famous Names and Global Players

Ireland started turning out for the side in pre-season this season through close friend and present team teammate Blake Norton, and the ex- Republic of Ireland midfielder then asked additional former professionals, who all play in a weekly nine-a-side game, to join in.

Former Senegal forward Niasse, who netted twelve scores in sixty-five Premier League games for Everton and even now attends their matches at Goodison Park, also made his debut versus Collegiate OB - who are based in Liverpool and use an Everton warm-up gear as their strip.

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

"Then he informed me we were facing a side from the city and the shock I had when I noticed them wearing Blue kits - I thought this is strange for me!

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

"Those fans who turn up and watch are happy and to make someone's moment if they see us competing there and to ask us questions - it's really about the joy of us getting somewhere we can enjoy football, with structure of course."

Such is the strength in depth at the club, Niasse had his debut at defender.

"That's a little unusual but then, I love running and just go forward - I'm not defending that much," he added.

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

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

Dreamlike' Experience

Along with the forward's 6 goals on debut, Stephen Ireland has scored 8 in 3 appearances for Wythenshawe, while George Boyd scored 5 on his debut match and Joleon Lescott, a centre-half by trade, scored a hat-trick in one match up front.

Wythenshawe are top of the Premier Division with three wins from 3 and a GD of plus nineteen.

One opponent, thirty-eight, who features on the wing for Collegiate OB, came up against former Wigan defender Figueroa on the weekend - and had to explain his young boy who Heskey was.

He has played at two World Cups for Honduras, in as well as featuring in over 200 top-flight games.

"It was going round like a rumor they had these ex-Premier League players," remarked Barrow.

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

"Even Emile [Heskey] got on and he's has 60-odd English caps.

"Our side held our own for a good 20 minutes but then we had a player dismissed and it was hard.

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

"The opponents were all really nice, shaking our hands after the match - it was like playing a group of normal guys.

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

'We'll Still Take the Title'

Andy Kirby coaches the Collegiate veterans team, who secured the Premier Division championship the previous campaign, along with Paul Maguire.

"Our team scored one-nil ahead and had a