Meet the Sunday Division Squad Boasting Over 1,800 Top-Flight Matches

What do you enhance a excellent veteran side who have won consecutive titles, including a double triumph boasting thirty victories from thirty-two matches?

Bring in a group of ex- pro players that have competed at the highest tier of club and international soccer as you aim for further silverware.

A Manchester side has an non-professional vets squad with 9 ex- top-flight footballers in their present lineup.

Two Hundred Twenty-Two Top Division Scores, Three Hundred Twenty-Five Global Appearances

Wythenshawe Veterans Over 35s are located in south the city and compete in the Cheshire Veterans League Top Tier.

Their squad list this season boasts nine ex- top-flight players, with a combined over 1,800 elite games.

The elite roster also contains 222 top division goals and 325 international caps.

They feature Papiss Cisse, who netted thirty-seven goals in over 100 games for Newcastle United after signing for them for £9m from Bundesliga side SC Freiburg in 2012.

He had his debut for Wythenshawe in their last home game versus reigning title holders their rivals and netted every one of the six goals in a 6-2 victory - featuring a 32-minute first-half hat-trick.

Wythenshawe's team for this season also includes former pros such as England and Liverpool striker Emile Heskey, Hull City and Burnley FC winger George Boyd, Everton striker 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.

In total, the former Premier League players have secured 15 significant honors and transferred for combined transfer fees of about £123m.

Household Names and Global Stars

Stephen Ireland began playing for the team during preseason this season through close friend and current team player Blake Norton, and the ex- Republic of Ireland player then invited other ex-pros, who all play in a weekly nine-a-side game, to join in.

Former Senegal striker Oumar Niasse, who netted 12 goals in sixty-five top-flight matches for the Toffees and even now attends their matches at Goodison Park, also made his first appearance versus Collegiate OB - who are located in Liverpool and wear an Blue training kit as their uniform.

"My friend Stephen said 'join and play, it's good fun'," commented Niasse.

"Then he informed me we were facing a side from Liverpool and the surprise I had when I noticed them wearing Blue shirts - I thought this is wrong for me!

"When you still enjoy football and you know you can still do it, anywhere you can play, what are you going to do?

"The people who come and see are happy and to make someone's day if they watch us playing there and to pose us queries - it's really about the joy of us getting a place we can enjoy football, with organisation 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 forward - I'm not staying back that much," he added.

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

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

Unreal Experience

In addition to the forward's six scores on his first game, Stephen Ireland has scored 8 in 3 games for Wythenshawe, while George Boyd hit five on his first match and Joleon Lescott, a defender by trade, notched a hat-trick in one match up front.

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

Paul Barrow, thirty-eight, who plays on the wing for the opposition, faced ex- Wigan defender Figueroa on Sunday - and had to explain his nine-year-old son who Heskey was.

Figueroa has played at two World Cups for his country, in addition to playing in more than two hundred top-flight matches.

"The news was going round like a rumor they had all these ex-Premier League stars," remarked the player.

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

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

"Our side held our own for a solid twenty minutes but then we had a man sent off and it was hard.

"Our group really haven't stopped talking about it - I was phoning my mum and sibling on the way home.

"The opponents were all really nice, shaking our hands after the game - it was like facing a group of regular guys.

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

'We'll Still Take the League'

Andy Kirby coaches the opposition veterans team, who secured the Top Tier championship the previous campaign, along with his co-manager.

"Our team scored 1-0 up and had a