Introduce this Weekend Division Team With Over 1,800 Premier League Games

How can you enhance a stellar veteran squad who have won back-to-back titles, including a double triumph with thirty victories from 32 games?

Sign a group of former pro players who have performed at the elite tier of club and international soccer as you target additional honors.

One Greater Manchester team boasts an non-professional veterans team with nine ex- Premier League players in their current lineup.

Two Hundred Twenty-Two Premier League Goals, Three Hundred Twenty-Five International Caps

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

The squad list this campaign boasts 9 former Premier League players, with a collective nearly 1,800 top-flight games.

This elite team also boasts 222 top division scores and 325 global appearances.

The squad include one forward, who scored 37 scores in over 100 appearances for Newcastle United after joining them for nine million pounds from Bundesliga club SC Freiburg in 2012.

He had his first appearance for Wythenshawe in their most recent home-field game versus defending title holders Collegiate Old Boys and scored all six scores in a 6-2 win - including a half-hour first-half hat-trick.

The team for this campaign also features ex- professionals such as England and Anfield forward Emile Heskey, Hull and Burnley winger George Boyd, Everton forward Oumar Niasse, Wigan defender Maynor Figueroa, City pair Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and top-flight title victors Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

In total, the ex- top-flight players have secured fifteen major honors and moved for total transfer sums of around £123 million.

Well-Known Figures and International Players

Stephen Ireland started turning out for the team in pre-season this summer through close friend and current team teammate Blake Norton, and the former Republic of Ireland player then invited additional ex-pros, who all compete in a weekly nine-a-side match, to participate.

Former Senegal forward Oumar Niasse, who scored 12 goals in sixty-five Premier League games for Everton and even now attends their home games, also made his first appearance against the opposition - who are located in the city and use an Blue training kit as their uniform.

"My mate Stephen Ireland told me 'come and play, it's good fun'," said the striker.

"Then he informed me we were facing a team from the city and the shock I had when I noticed them wearing Everton kits - I say this is wrong for me!

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

"Those fans who come and see are pleased and to give a moment if they watch us competing there and to ask us questions - it's more like the pleasure of us having a place we can enjoy football, with organisation of course."

Such is the squad depth at the club, he had his debut at defender.

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

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

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

Unreal Scenario

In addition to Cisse's 6 scores on debut, Ireland has scored 8 in three games for the side, while George Boyd scored five on his first match and Lescott, a defender by trade, notched a triple in one game up front.

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

Paul Barrow, thirty-eight, who features on the wing for Collegiate OB, came up against ex- Latics defender Maynor Figueroa on Sunday - and had to explain his nine-year-old son who Heskey was.

He has appeared at two World Cups for Honduras, in as well as playing in over two hundred Premier League games.

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

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

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

"Our side held our own for a solid 20 mins but then we had a player dismissed and it was tough.

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

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

"Now we are eager for the second fixture."

We Will Still Win the League'

Andy Kirby manages the opposition vets side, who won the Premier Division championship the previous campaign, along with his co-manager.

"Our team scored one-nil up and had a