Discover this Weekend Division Squad Boasting Nearly Two Thousand Top-Flight Appearances

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A Greater Manchester team fields an non-professional veterans squad with nine ex- Premier League players in their current lineup.

222 Premier League Scores, Three Hundred Twenty-Five International Caps

Wythenshawe Vets Over 35s are situated in southern the city and compete in the Cheshire Veterans League Premier Tier.

Their roster this campaign includes 9 former top-flight players, with a collective over 1,800 Premier League matches.

The star-studded roster also boasts over 220 top division goals and 325 global appearances.

The squad feature one forward, who notched 37 scores in 117 appearances for his former club after joining them for £9m from German league club Freiburg in 2012.

Cisse had his first appearance for Wythenshawe in their most recent home match versus defending champions their rivals and netted every one of the six goals in a six-two win - including a 32-minute first-half hat-trick.

Wythenshawe's squad for this season also features former professionals such as England and Liverpool striker Emile Heskey, Hull City and Burnley FC winger George Boyd, Toffees striker Oumar Niasse, Wigan Athletic full-back Maynor Figueroa, Manchester City pair Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and Premier League championship winners Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

Together, the ex- top-flight players have secured 15 big honors and moved for combined transfer sums of approximately £123 million.

Well-Known Names and Global Players

Stephen Ireland began turning out for the side during preseason this summer through good mate and present Wythenshawe player Blake Norton, and the former Republic of Ireland player then invited additional former professionals, who all compete in a weekly small-sided game, to join in.

Former Senegal forward Niasse, who scored 12 goals in sixty-five top-flight matches for the Toffees and still goes to their matches at Goodison Park, also had his debut against Collegiate OB - who are located in the city and use an Blue training kit as their uniform.

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

"Then he informed me we were facing a team from the city and the surprise I had when I noticed them sporting Blue shirts - I thought this is strange for me!

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

"The people who turn up and see are pleased and to give someone's moment if they see us competing there and to ask us queries - it's more like the joy of us having a place we can enjoy football, with organisation of course."

Such is the strength in depth at the club, Niasse made 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 warn my defender 'I'm not hanging back' and that I'm just going to continue attacking.

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

'Surreal Experience

Along with the forward's six scores on his first game, Stephen Ireland has scored 8 in 3 appearances for Wythenshawe, while George Boyd hit 5 on his first appearance and Joleon Lescott, a defender by trade, scored a hat-trick in one match up front.

Wythenshawe are top of the Premier Division with 3 wins from 3 and a goal difference of +19.

One opponent, thirty-eight, who plays on the flank for Collegiate OB, came up against former Latics defender Maynor Figueroa on the weekend - and had to tell his young son who Heskey was.

Figueroa has played at two World Cups for his country, in addition to playing in over two hundred Premier League games.

"The news was going round like wildfire they had these former top-flight stars," remarked the player.

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

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

"We competed well for a solid 20 minutes but then we had a man dismissed and it was hard.

"We literally have not stopped chatting about it - I was calling my mum and brother on the journey home.

"They were all dead sound, shaking our hands after the match - it was like playing a bunch of normal fellas.

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

'We'll Still Take the Title'

The manager manages the Collegiate vets team, who secured the Premier Division championship last season, along with Paul Maguire.

"Our team went 1-0 ahead and had a