Introduce this Weekend Division Team Boasting 1,800 English Top Division Games

How can you improve a stellar veteran squad that have won back-to-back championships, featuring a league-cup double boasting thirty wins from thirty-two games?

Recruit a raft of former pro players that have played at the highest level of club and global football as you pursue additional honors.

One Greater Manchester side fields an non-professional veterans team with 9 ex- Premier League footballers in their active squad.

222 Top Division Goals, 325 Global Caps

The team Veterans Over 35s are situated in south the city and play in the Cheshire Veterans League Premier Division.

Their lineup this season boasts nine former top-flight players, with a total 1,801 elite games.

The high-profile team also boasts 222 Premier League goals and over 320 global appearances.

The squad include one forward, who scored 37 goals in over 100 games for Newcastle United after moving to them for £9m from German league side Freiburg in 2012.

Cisse had his debut for the team in their most recent home game versus defending title holders Collegiate Old Boys and netted every one of the six scores in a 6-2 victory - including a 32-minute first-half triple.

The team for this season also includes ex- professionals such as England and Liverpool forward Emile Heskey, Hull and Burnley winger George Boyd, Everton striker Oumar Niasse, Wigan Athletic 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 major trophies and transferred for combined transfer fees of approximately £123 million.

Famous Names and Global Stars

Ireland began turning out for the team in preseason this season through good mate and present Wythenshawe player Blake Norton, and the former Irish midfielder then asked additional former professionals, who all play in a weekly small-sided match, to participate.

Former Senegalese forward Oumar Niasse, who netted 12 scores in sixty-five top-flight matches for the Toffees and even now goes to their matches at Goodison Park, also had his debut against the opposition - who are based in the city and wear an Everton warm-up gear as their strip.

"A friend Stephen said 'come and have a game, it's enjoyable'," commented Niasse.

"After that he informed me we were playing a team from the city and the shock I had when I saw them wearing Everton kits - I say this is wrong for me!

"When you still love football and you know you can still do it, wherever you can kick a ball, what are you going to choose?

"The people who come and see are happy and to make a day if they watch us competing there and to pose us queries - it's more like the pleasure of us having a place we can play, with organisation of course."

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

"That's a little different but then, I enjoy running and just go inside - I'm not defending that much," he said.

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

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

Unreal Scenario

In addition to the forward's 6 scores on his first game, Ireland has netted eight in three games for the side, while George Boyd scored 5 on his first appearance and Joleon Lescott, a centre-half by position, scored a hat-trick in one match up front.

The team are leading of the Top Division with three wins from 3 and a goal difference of plus nineteen.

Paul Barrow, 38, who plays on the wing for the opposition, faced ex- Latics full-back Figueroa on the weekend - and had to explain his young boy who Emile Heskey was.

Figueroa has appeared at 2 global tournaments for his country, in addition to playing in over two hundred Premier League matches.

"It was going round like a rumor they had these ex-Premier League stars," said the player.

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

"Even Emile [Heskey] came on and he's has 60-odd England appearances.

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

"We really have not ceased talking about it - I was phoning my mother and brother on the way home.

"The opponents were all dead sound, shaking our hands after the game - it was like playing a bunch of regular fellas.

"Now we are eager for the return match."

We Will Still Take the League'

Andy Kirby coaches the Collegiate vets side, who won the Top Tier title last season, along with his co-manager.

"Our team went 1-0 up and had a