Meet this Sunday Division Squad Featuring Over 1,800 Premier League Matches

How do you improve a stellar veteran side that have secured back-to-back titles, including a league-cup double boasting thirty victories from thirty-two matches?

Sign a collection of former professionals that have competed at the highest level of club and international soccer as you target additional trophies.

A Greater Manchester side boasts an non-professional vets squad with nine ex- Premier League players in their present lineup.

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

Wythenshawe Veterans Over 35s are located in southern the city and compete in the Cheshire Vets League Top Division.

The roster this season boasts 9 former top-flight players, with a combined nearly 1,800 elite appearances.

This star-studded squad also contains 222 top division goals and over 320 global caps.

The squad feature Papiss Cisse, who notched thirty-seven goals in over 100 appearances for Newcastle United after joining them for nine million pounds from Bundesliga club Freiburg in 2012.

Cisse had his first appearance for Wythenshawe in their last home-field game against reigning title holders Collegiate Old Boys and scored all six goals in a six-two win - including a half-hour first-half hat-trick.

The roster for this season also features ex- pros such as English and Anfield striker Emile Heskey, Hull City and Burnley midfielder George Boyd, Everton striker Oumar Niasse, Wigan Athletic defender Maynor Figueroa, Manchester City duo Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and top-flight title winners Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

Collectively, the ex- Premier League footballers have won 15 big honors and moved for combined transfer sums of around £123 million.

Famous Names and Global Stars

Stephen Ireland began turning out for the team in pre-season this summer through close friend and present team player Blake Norton, and the ex- Irish player then asked other ex-pros, who all play in a weekly small-sided game, to participate.

Ex- Senegalese striker Niasse, who scored twelve goals in sixty-five Premier League matches for Everton and still goes to their home games, also had his debut against Collegiate OB - who are located in the city and use an Blue warm-up gear as their uniform.

"My friend Stephen Ireland said 'come and play, it's enjoyable'," commented the striker.

"Then he told me we were playing a side from the city and the shock I had when I noticed them sporting Blue kits - I thought this is wrong for me!

"When you still enjoy football and you feel you can still play, wherever you can kick a ball, what are you going to do?

"Those people who come and watch are happy and to give someone's moment if they watch us competing there and to ask us queries - it's really about the pleasure of us getting somewhere we can play, with structure of course."

So great is the squad depth at Wythenshawe, he made his first game at full-back.

"That's a bit different but then, I love running and just move forward - I'm not defending that much," he added.

"I tell my defender 'I'm not staying' and that I'm just going to keep attacking.

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

'Surreal Experience

Along with the forward's six goals on debut, Ireland has scored 8 in 3 games for Wythenshawe, while George Boyd hit 5 on his first appearance and Joleon Lescott, a centre-half by position, scored a hat-trick in one game up front.

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

Paul Barrow, 38, who plays on the wing for Collegiate OB, came up against former Wigan full-back Maynor Figueroa on Sunday - and had to explain his young boy who Heskey was.

Figueroa has played at two global tournaments for his country, in as well as playing in more than 200 top-flight games.

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

"I felt I was a bit awestruck facing Figueroa to be honest.

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

"We competed well for a solid twenty minutes but then we had a player dismissed and it was hard.

"Our group literally haven't stopped chatting about it - I was calling my mum and sibling on the journey home.

"They were all really nice, shaking our hands after the game - it was like playing a group of regular fellas.

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

We Will Still Take the League'

The manager manages the opposition vets side, who secured the Top Tier championship the previous campaign, together with Paul Maguire.

"Our team scored 1-0 ahead and had a