Introduce the Weekend Division Team With 1,800 English Top Division Games

What can you boost a outstanding veteran side who have claimed back-to-back titles, featuring a league-cup double boasting 30 wins from 32 matches?

Recruit a collection of former pro players that have competed at the top tier of club and global football as you target more silverware.

A Manchester side fields an non-professional veterans squad with 9 former top-flight footballers in their active lineup.

Two Hundred Twenty-Two Premier League Scores, Three Hundred Twenty-Five International Caps

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

Their lineup this campaign includes nine former top-flight players, with a total over 1,800 elite matches.

This high-profile squad also boasts 222 Premier League goals and 325 international appearances.

The squad feature one forward, who notched 37 scores in 117 games for his former club after joining them for £9m from Bundesliga club SC Freiburg in 2012.

Cisse made his first appearance for Wythenshawe in their last home match against reigning title holders Collegiate Old Boys and scored every one of the six scores in a six-two win - featuring a half-hour opening period hat-trick.

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

In total, the former top-flight footballers have won fifteen big trophies and moved for combined transfer sums of approximately £123m.

Well-Known Figures and Global Stars

Stephen Ireland started playing for the team in preseason this season through close mate and present Wythenshawe teammate Blake Norton, and the ex- Republic of Ireland player then asked additional ex-pros, who all play in a midweek small-sided game, to participate.

Former Senegalese forward Oumar Niasse, who scored 12 scores in 65 top-flight matches for the Toffees and even now attends their home games, also had his first appearance versus Collegiate OB - who are based in the city and wear an Everton warm-up gear as their uniform.

"A friend Stephen Ireland told me 'join and play, it's enjoyable'," commented the striker.

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

"If you still enjoy 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 happy and to make someone's moment if they watch us playing there and to ask us queries - it's really about the pleasure of us having a place we can enjoy football, with structure of course."

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

"It's a bit different but then, I love running and just move forward - I'm not staying back that much," he said.

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

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

Unreal Experience

Along with the forward's 6 scores on debut, Stephen Ireland has netted 8 in 3 games for the side, while George Boyd hit 5 on his debut appearance and Joleon Lescott, a defender by trade, scored a hat-trick in one match up front.

Wythenshawe are leading of the Top Tier with 3 victories from 3 and a goal difference of plus nineteen.

Paul Barrow, thirty-eight, who features on the wing for Collegiate OB, came up against former Wigan defender Figueroa on the weekend - and had to tell his young son who Heskey was.

He has played at 2 global tournaments for Honduras, in as well as featuring in over 200 Premier League matches.

"The news was spreading like a rumor they had these former top-flight stars," remarked the player.

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

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

"We competed well for a good twenty minutes but then we had a player sent off and it was tough.

"We literally have not ceased talking about it - I was calling my mother and sibling on the way home.

"They were all dead sound, shaking our hands after the game - it was like playing a group of normal fellas.

"Now we are eager for the return fixture."

We Will Still Take the Title'

Andy Kirby coaches the opposition veterans team, who won the Top Tier title the previous campaign, along with Paul Maguire.

"We scored one-nil up and had a