Meet this Sunday Division Team Boasting 1,800 Premier League Matches

How can you boost a stellar veteran team that have claimed back-to-back championships, including a double triumph with 30 victories from 32 games?

Sign a raft of former pro players who have played at the elite tier of club football and global soccer as you aim for more honors.

A Manchester side fields an amateur vets squad with 9 ex- Premier League players in their current lineup.

222 Premier League Goals, Three Hundred Twenty-Five International Appearances

The team Veterans Over-35s are situated in southern the city and play in the Cheshire Veterans League Premier Tier.

Their roster this season includes 9 ex- top-flight players, with a collective 1,801 elite matches.

The high-profile squad also boasts 222 Premier League goals and over 320 international appearances.

They feature one forward, who notched 37 goals in over 100 appearances for Newcastle United after signing for them for £9m from German league club SC Freiburg in 2012.

He made his first appearance for the team in their last home-field match against reigning title holders their rivals and scored all six scores in a six-two victory - including a 32-minute opening period hat-trick.

Wythenshawe's team for this season also includes ex- professionals such as England and Anfield striker Emile Heskey, Hull City and Burnley FC winger George Boyd, Toffees forward Oumar Niasse, Wigan Athletic full-back Maynor Figueroa, City duo Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and Premier League title victors Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

Collectively, the former top-flight footballers have claimed 15 significant honors and moved for total transfer sums of about £123 million.

Famous Names and Global Players

Ireland started playing for the team in pre-season this season through good friend and present team teammate Blake Norton, and the former Republic of Ireland midfielder then asked other ex-pros, who all play in a weekly nine-a-side match, to participate.

Ex- Senegalese forward Niasse, who scored 12 scores in sixty-five Premier League matches for Everton and even now attends their home games, also had his first appearance versus Collegiate OB - who are located in Liverpool and wear an Blue warm-up gear as their strip.

"My mate Stephen told me 'join and play, it's a laugh'," commented the striker.

"After that he told me we were facing a side from Liverpool and the surprise I had when I noticed them wearing Everton kits - I say this is strange for me!

"If you still enjoy football and you feel you can still play, anywhere you can play, what are you going to do?

"Those people who come and watch are happy and to make a moment if they watch us competing there and to ask us queries - it's really about the pleasure of us having somewhere we can enjoy football, with structure of course."

So great is the bench strength at Wythenshawe, Niasse made his first game at defender.

"It's a bit different but then, I love sprinting and just go inside - I'm not defending that much," he said.

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

"That running is what I'm after. It's good fun."

Unreal Experience

Along with Cisse's six goals on debut, Stephen Ireland has netted eight in 3 appearances for the side, while George Boyd scored 5 on his debut appearance and Joleon Lescott, a defender by trade, notched a triple in one match as a striker.

Wythenshawe are top of the Premier Division with three victories from 3 and a goal difference of plus nineteen.

One opponent, thirty-eight, who plays on the wing for the opposition, came up against former Latics full-back Maynor Figueroa on Sunday - and had to tell his nine-year-old boy who Heskey was.

He has played at 2 global tournaments for his country, in as well as featuring in more than 200 Premier League games.

"The news was going round like wildfire they had all these former top-flight players," remarked Barrow.

"I felt I was a bit starstruck playing against him to be honest.

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

"Our side competed well for a solid twenty mins but then we had a player sent off and it was tough.

"Our group literally have not ceased chatting about it - I was phoning my mother and brother on the way home.

"The opponents were all really nice, shaking our hands after the match - it was like facing a bunch of regular fellas.

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

'We'll Still Take the Title'

Andy Kirby manages the opposition veterans team, who won the Premier Division championship last season, along with Paul Maguire.

"We scored 1-0 up and had a