Meet this Sunday League Squad With 1,800 Top-Flight Games

How can you improve a stellar veteran side who have won back-to-back titles, featuring a league-cup double with thirty wins from thirty-two games?

Bring in a group of former pro players who have played at the elite level of club football and international football as you target more trophies.

One Greater Manchester team has an amateur veterans squad with 9 ex- top-flight players in their current lineup.

222 Premier League Scores, 325 International Appearances

The team Vets Over 35s are based in southern Manchester and play in the Cheshire-based Vets Division Premier Division.

The roster this season features 9 former top-flight players, with a total over 1,800 top-flight matches.

This high-profile roster also includes 222 top division scores and over 320 international appearances.

The squad feature one forward, who notched 37 goals in over 100 appearances for his former club after joining them for £9m from Bundesliga club Freiburg in 2012.

Cisse had his first appearance for the team in their most recent home game versus reigning title holders their rivals and netted all six goals in a six-two win - featuring a half-hour opening period triple.

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, Toffees forward Oumar Niasse, Wigan full-back Maynor Figueroa, City duo Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and top-flight title winners Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

Collectively, the ex- Premier League players have secured fifteen significant honors and transferred for combined transfer sums of about £123 million.

Famous Names and International Players

Ireland began turning out for the team in preseason this summer through good mate and present Wythenshawe teammate Blake Norton, and the former Irish midfielder then invited additional ex-pros, who all play in a midweek small-sided match, to participate.

Ex- Senegal forward Oumar Niasse, who netted 12 goals in sixty-five top-flight games for Everton and even now attends their home games, also had his first appearance against the opposition - who are located in Liverpool and wear an Blue warm-up gear as their strip.

"A mate Stephen Ireland told me 'join and have a game, it's a laugh'," commented the striker.

"After that he informed me we were facing a team from Liverpool and the surprise I had when I saw them wearing Everton kits - I thought this is strange for me!

"If you still love football and you feel you can still do it, anywhere you can kick a ball, what are you going to choose?

"Those people who come and watch are pleased and to give someone's moment if they watch us competing there and to ask us queries - it's really about the joy of us having a place we can play, with organisation of course."

Such is the bench strength at the club, Niasse made his first game at full-back.

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

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

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

Dreamlike' Experience

Along with the forward's 6 goals on his first game, Ireland has scored 8 in 3 games for the side, while Boyd scored 5 on his first appearance and Lescott, a centre-half by position, notched a hat-trick in one game up front.

The team are leading of the Premier Tier with three victories from 3 and a GD of +19.

Paul Barrow, 38, who features on the flank for the opposition, came up against former Wigan defender Maynor Figueroa on Sunday - and had to explain his young son who Emile Heskey was.

He has played at two World Cups for Honduras, in as well as featuring in over 200 Premier League games.

"The news was going round like a rumor they had all these former top-flight players," remarked the player.

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

"Also Heskey came on and he's has over 60 English caps.

"We competed well for a good 20 mins but then we had a player dismissed and it was hard.

"We literally have not stopped talking about it - I was calling my mother and sibling on the way home.

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

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

We Will Still Take the League'

Andy Kirby manages the Collegiate vets side, who secured the Premier Division title last season, together with Paul Maguire.

"Our team scored one-nil up and had a