Meet the Sunday League Squad With 1,800 English Top Division Matches

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Sign a group of former professionals that have competed at the top tier of club and global football as you pursue more honors.

A Greater Manchester team fields an amateur veterans squad with 9 former Premier League footballers in their active roster.

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

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

The roster this campaign boasts nine ex- top-flight players, with a combined 1,801 elite matches.

This star-studded team also includes 222 Premier League scores and over 320 international appearances.

The squad feature Papiss Cisse, who netted thirty-seven goals in 117 appearances for his former club after moving to them for nine million pounds from German league club Freiburg in January 2012.

Cisse made his first appearance for Wythenshawe in their most recent home-field game versus defending title holders their rivals and scored every one of the six goals in a 6-2 win - including a 32-minute opening period hat-trick.

The team for this season also features ex- professionals such as England and Liverpool striker Emile Heskey, Hull and Burnley winger George Boyd, Everton striker Oumar Niasse, Wigan defender Maynor Figueroa, City duo Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and Premier League title winners Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

Together, the former Premier League players have secured fifteen big trophies and moved for total transfer sums of approximately £123 million.

Household Figures and Global Stars

Ireland started playing for the side during preseason this summer through close friend and present Wythenshawe player Blake Norton, and the ex- Republic of Ireland midfielder then invited additional ex-pros, who all compete in a weekly nine-a-side game, to join in.

Ex- Senegal forward Niasse, who netted 12 goals in 65 top-flight matches for Everton and even now attends their matches at Goodison Park, also made his debut versus Collegiate OB - who are based in Liverpool and wear an Everton warm-up gear as their strip.

"My mate Stephen Ireland said 'join and play, it's good fun'," commented Niasse.

"After that he told me we were facing a team from the city and the shock I had when I noticed them wearing Blue kits - I thought this is strange for me!

"When you still love football and you feel you can still play, wherever you can play, what are you going to choose?

"Those fans who turn up and see are happy and to give someone's moment if they watch us competing there and to pose us questions - it's more like the pleasure of us getting a place we can play, with organisation of course."

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

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

"I tell my defender 'I'm not staying' and that I'm just going to continue attacking.

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

Unreal Experience

Along with the forward's six scores on debut, Ireland has scored eight in three appearances for Wythenshawe, while Boyd hit five on his first match and Joleon Lescott, a defender by trade, notched a hat-trick in one match as a striker.

The team are leading of the Premier Division with 3 victories from three and a goal difference of plus nineteen.

Paul Barrow, 38, who features on the flank for the opposition, faced ex- Latics defender Figueroa on Sunday - and had to explain his young son who Heskey was.

Figueroa has played at 2 global tournaments for Honduras, in as well as playing in more than two hundred Premier League matches.

"It was spreading like wildfire they had these former top-flight stars," said the player.

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

"Even Heskey got on and he's got 60-odd England caps.

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

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

"They were all friendly, shaking our hands after the match - it was like facing a group of regular fellas.

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

We Will Still Win the League'

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

"We scored one-nil up and had a