Discover this Weekend Division Squad With Nearly Two Thousand English Top Division Appearances

What can you improve a excellent veteran squad that have won consecutive titles, including a league-cup double boasting thirty wins from thirty-two games?

Sign a raft of ex- pro players who have played at the highest tier of club and global soccer as you target further trophies.

One Manchester side has an non-professional vets team with nine former top-flight players in their present lineup.

222 Top Division Scores, 325 Global Appearances

Wythenshawe Vets Over 35s are based in southern the city and compete in the Cheshire Veterans Division Premier Division.

The roster this campaign features nine former Premier League players, with a total over 1,800 elite matches.

The star-studded team also includes 222 Premier League scores and over 320 global appearances.

The squad feature one forward, who notched 37 goals in over 100 games for his former club after joining them for nine million pounds from Bundesliga club Freiburg in 2012.

Cisse had his debut for the team in their last home-field match versus defending champions their rivals and netted all six scores in a six-two win - including a half-hour opening period triple.

The roster for this campaign also includes ex- pros such as England and Anfield striker Emile Heskey, Hull City and Burnley FC winger George Boyd, Everton forward Oumar Niasse, Wigan Athletic full-back Maynor Figueroa, City pair Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and top-flight championship victors Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

Collectively, the former top-flight footballers have won fifteen significant honors and transferred for combined transfer fees of around £123m.

Famous Figures and International Stars

Ireland began playing for the team during pre-season this summer through good friend and current team player Blake Norton, and the ex- Irish midfielder then invited other former professionals, who all play in a midweek nine-a-side game, to participate.

Former Senegal forward Niasse, who scored 12 goals in 65 top-flight games for the Toffees and still goes to their home games, also made his first appearance versus Collegiate OB - who are based in Liverpool and wear an Blue warm-up gear as their strip.

"My mate Stephen told me 'come and have a game, it's enjoyable'," said the striker.

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

"When you still love the game and you feel you can still play, anywhere you can kick a ball, what are you going to do?

"Those fans who turn up and see are pleased and to make someone's day 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 Wythenshawe, he had his first game at full-back.

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

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

"That movement is what I'm seeking. It's good fun."

'Surreal Feeling

Along with the forward's 6 scores on his first game, Ireland has scored 8 in 3 games for the side, while George Boyd scored 5 on his first match and Joleon Lescott, a centre-half by trade, scored a hat-trick in one match as a striker.

The team are top of the Premier Division with 3 wins from 3 and a goal difference of plus nineteen.

One opponent, thirty-eight, who plays on the flank for the opposition, faced ex- Wigan full-back Maynor Figueroa on Sunday - and had to explain his nine-year-old son who Heskey was.

He has played at 2 World Cups for his country, in as well as playing in over two hundred Premier League matches.

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

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

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

"Our side competed well for a solid 20 minutes but then we had a player dismissed and it was hard.

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

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

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

We Will Still Take the League'

The manager manages the Collegiate vets team, who won the Top Tier title last season, together with his co-manager.

"Our team went one-nil up and had a