Meet the Weekend League Team Featuring Nearly Two Thousand Top-Flight Matches

What do you improve a outstanding veteran team who have won consecutive championships, featuring a double triumph with 30 wins from thirty-two games?

Bring in a raft of former professionals that have played at the top tier of club and global soccer as you pursue more honors.

One Manchester club boasts an non-professional veterans squad with nine ex- Premier League players in their current roster.

Two Hundred Twenty-Two Premier League Goals, 325 Global Caps

Wythenshawe Veterans Over 35s are located in southern the city and play in the Cheshire Vets League Premier Tier.

The roster this season features 9 ex- Premier League footballers, with a combined 1,801 Premier League matches.

This star-studded team also contains over 220 top division scores and over 320 international appearances.

The squad feature one forward, who notched thirty-seven scores in over 100 games for Newcastle United after moving to them for nine million pounds from Bundesliga club Freiburg in 2012.

He made his first appearance for the team in their last home game against reigning champions Collegiate Old Boys and scored all six scores in a 6-2 win - including a 32-minute opening period hat-trick.

The squad for this campaign also includes ex- pros such as England and Anfield forward Emile Heskey, Hull and Burnley midfielder George Boyd, Everton striker Oumar Niasse, Wigan full-back Maynor Figueroa, City pair Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and Premier League title winners Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

Together, the ex- Premier League players have secured fifteen big honors and moved for combined transfer sums of approximately £123m.

Well-Known Names and International Players

Ireland started playing for the team during preseason this summer through good friend and current team player Blake Norton, and the ex- Irish midfielder then invited other ex-pros, who all play in a weekly nine-a-side match, to join in.

Ex- Senegalese striker Oumar Niasse, who netted 12 goals in 65 Premier League matches for the Toffees and even now goes to their matches at Goodison Park, also had his first appearance versus Collegiate OB - who are located in Liverpool and use an Blue warm-up gear as their uniform.

"A mate Stephen said 'come and have a game, it's good fun'," commented the striker.

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

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

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

So great is the bench strength at the club, he made his debut at full-back.

"It's a little unusual but then, I enjoy running and just go forward - I'm not staying back that much," he added.

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

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

'Surreal Experience

In addition to Cisse's six goals on his first game, Stephen Ireland has netted 8 in 3 appearances for the side, while Boyd hit 5 on his first appearance and Lescott, a centre-half by position, notched a triple in one game as a striker.

The team are top of the Top Tier with 3 victories from three and a GD of plus nineteen.

Paul Barrow, thirty-eight, who plays on the wing for Collegiate OB, faced former Latics full-back Figueroa on the weekend - and had to explain his nine-year-old boy who Heskey was.

He has appeared at 2 World Cups for his country, in addition to featuring in over two hundred top-flight matches.

"The news was spreading like a rumor they had these ex-Premier League stars," said the player.

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

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

"We competed well for a good 20 mins but then we had a man dismissed and it was hard.

"We literally haven't ceased talking about it - I was calling my mother and sibling on the journey 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 match."

'We'll Still Take the League'

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

"We went one-nil up and had a