Introduce the Weekend Division Team With Over 1,800 Premier League Appearances

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One Manchester side boasts an amateur veterans team with nine ex- top-flight footballers in their current lineup.

222 Premier League Scores, 325 International Appearances

The team Veterans Over 35s are based in southern the city and compete in the Cheshire-based Vets League Premier Division.

The roster this campaign includes nine former Premier League players, with a collective nearly 1,800 top-flight games.

This high-profile team also includes over 220 top division goals and over 320 global caps.

They feature Papiss Cisse, who notched thirty-seven goals in 117 games for Newcastle United after moving to them for nine million pounds from German league club SC Freiburg in 2012.

Cisse made his first appearance for Wythenshawe in their last home match against reigning title holders Collegiate Old Boys and scored every one of the six scores in a 6-2 win - including a 32-minute first-half hat-trick.

Wythenshawe's team for this campaign also includes ex- professionals such as English and Anfield forward Emile Heskey, Hull City and Burnley midfielder George Boyd, Everton striker Oumar Niasse, Wigan full-back Maynor Figueroa, City duo Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and Premier League championship victors Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

Together, the ex- Premier League players have secured fifteen major honors and transferred for combined transfer fees of approximately £123 million.

Household Figures and Global Players

Stephen Ireland began turning out for the side during preseason this summer through good mate and current Wythenshawe player Blake Norton, and the former Irish midfielder then invited additional ex-pros, who all compete in a midweek nine-a-side match, to participate.

Ex- Senegalese forward Oumar Niasse, who scored twelve scores in 65 Premier League matches 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 strip.

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

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

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

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

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

"That's a little different but then, I love sprinting and just move forward - I'm not staying back that much," he added.

"I tell 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 enjoyable."

Unreal Experience

Along with the forward's six scores on his first game, Ireland has netted 8 in 3 appearances for the side, while Boyd hit five on his first appearance and Lescott, a centre-half by trade, scored a triple in one game up front.

The team are top of the Top Division with 3 wins from 3 and a GD of plus nineteen.

One opponent, 38, who plays on the flank for Collegiate OB, faced former Latics defender Maynor Figueroa on Sunday - and had to explain his young son who Emile Heskey was.

Figueroa has played at 2 World Cups for his country, in addition to featuring in over 200 Premier League games.

"It was going round like a rumor they had these ex-Premier League players," said the player.

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

"Also Heskey came on and he's has over 60 England appearances.

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

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

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

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

'We'll Still Win the League'

The manager coaches the Collegiate vets team, who won the Premier Division championship last season, together with his co-manager.

"We went one-nil up and had a