Discover this Weekend League Squad Featuring Nearly Two Thousand English Top Division Games

What can you enhance a excellent veteran team that have won consecutive titles, including a league-cup double with thirty victories from thirty-two games?

Bring in a raft of former professionals that have played at the elite level of club football and global football as you aim for additional honors.

A Manchester side boasts an non-professional veterans team with nine ex- top-flight players in their present lineup.

Two Hundred Twenty-Two Top Division Scores, 325 Global Caps

Wythenshawe Vets Over-35s are based in southern Manchester and compete in the Cheshire-based Veterans League Premier Tier.

The squad list this season boasts nine ex- Premier League footballers, with a total nearly 1,800 elite appearances.

The star-studded roster also boasts 222 top division scores and over 320 international caps.

They include one forward, who notched thirty-seven goals in over 100 appearances for Newcastle United after joining them for £9m from Bundesliga side SC Freiburg in 2012.

Cisse had his debut for Wythenshawe in their most recent home match versus defending champions Collegiate Old Boys and netted all six goals in a 6-2 victory - including a half-hour opening period triple.

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

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

Well-Known Figures and Global Stars

Ireland began playing for the side in preseason this summer through close mate and current Wythenshawe player Blake Norton, and the former Republic of Ireland midfielder then asked additional former professionals, who all compete in a midweek small-sided game, to join in.

Ex- Senegalese forward Niasse, who netted 12 scores in sixty-five Premier League games for Everton and even now goes to their home games, also had his first appearance versus the opposition - who are based in the city and use an Blue training kit as their strip.

"My friend Stephen said 'come and have a game, it's a laugh'," commented the striker.

"Then he told me we were playing a team from the city and the surprise I had when I noticed them sporting Everton kits - I thought this is strange for me!

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

"The people who turn up and see are pleased and to give someone's day if they watch us playing there and to ask us questions - it's more like the pleasure of us having somewhere we can enjoy football, with structure of course."

So great is the strength in depth at the club, Niasse had his first game at full-back.

"It's a bit unusual but then, I love running and just move inside - I'm not defending that much," he said.

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

"That running is what I'm looking for. It's good fun."

Unreal Scenario

Along with the forward's six scores on his first game, Stephen Ireland has scored 8 in 3 appearances for Wythenshawe, while Boyd scored five on his debut appearance and Lescott, a defender by trade, notched a triple in one match up front.

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

One opponent, thirty-eight, who plays on the wing for the opposition, came up against former Latics defender Maynor Figueroa on Sunday - and had to explain his nine-year-old boy who Heskey was.

Figueroa has played at two global tournaments for Honduras, in addition to playing in more than 200 top-flight games.

"It was spreading like a rumor they had all these former top-flight players," remarked the player.

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

"Even Heskey got on and he's has 60-odd English appearances.

"We competed well for a solid twenty minutes but then we had a player dismissed and it was tough.

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

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

"Now we are eager for the return match."

'We'll Still Take the League'

Andy Kirby manages the Collegiate veterans team, who secured the Premier Division title last season, together with his co-manager.

"We went one-nil up and had a