Discover this Weekend Division Club With 1,800 Premier League Matches

How can you improve a excellent experienced team that have secured consecutive titles, including a double triumph with thirty victories from thirty-two games?

Sign a raft of ex- pro players that have played at the elite level of club football and global soccer as you target additional honors.

One Manchester team has an amateur vets team with 9 former top-flight footballers in their present lineup.

Two Hundred Twenty-Two Top Division Scores, Three Hundred Twenty-Five International Caps

The team Vets Over-35s are located in southern Manchester and compete in the Cheshire-based Vets League Premier Tier.

The roster this season boasts nine ex- Premier League players, with a collective nearly 1,800 top-flight appearances.

The high-profile team also includes over 220 Premier League scores and over 320 global caps.

They include one forward, who notched thirty-seven scores in over 100 games for Newcastle United after joining them for £9m from German league club Freiburg in 2012.

He made his debut for the team in their last home-field game versus reigning champions Collegiate Old Boys and scored all six scores in a 6-2 win - featuring a 32-minute first-half hat-trick.

The squad for this campaign also includes ex- professionals such as England and Anfield forward Emile Heskey, Hull and Burnley winger George Boyd, Toffees forward Oumar Niasse, Wigan defender Maynor Figueroa, Manchester City pair Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and top-flight title victors Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

Collectively, the former Premier League players have won fifteen major trophies and moved for combined transfer fees of about £123 million.

Household Figures and International Players

Ireland started turning out for the side in preseason this season through good mate and current team player Blake Norton, and the ex- Republic of Ireland midfielder then invited other former professionals, who all compete in a weekly small-sided match, to join in.

Former Senegalese forward Oumar Niasse, who scored twelve scores in sixty-five Premier League matches for Everton and even now attends their matches at Goodison Park, also made his debut versus the opposition - who are located in the city and use an Blue training kit as their strip.

"My mate Stephen Ireland said 'join and have a game, it's enjoyable'," commented the striker.

"Then he told me we were facing a side from Liverpool and the shock I had when I saw them sporting Blue shirts - I say this is wrong for me!

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

"Those people who come and see are pleased and to give someone's moment if they watch us competing there and to pose us questions - it's really about the joy of us getting somewhere we can play, with structure of course."

So great is the squad depth at Wythenshawe, Niasse made his debut at defender.

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

"I warn my defender 'I'm not staying' and that I'm just going to continue running.

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

Dreamlike' Experience

Along with the forward's 6 goals on debut, Stephen Ireland has scored eight in three games for Wythenshawe, while Boyd hit five on his first match and Lescott, a defender by position, scored a triple in one match as a striker.

The team are leading of the Top Tier with three victories from three and a GD of plus nineteen.

One opponent, thirty-eight, who features on the flank for the opposition, faced former Wigan full-back Figueroa on Sunday - and had to tell his nine-year-old son who Emile Heskey was.

Figueroa has played at 2 World Cups for his country, in addition to featuring in more than 200 top-flight matches.

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

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

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

"We competed well for a solid twenty mins but then we had a man sent off and it was hard.

"Our group literally have not stopped chatting about it - I was calling 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 group of normal guys.

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

We Will Still Win the League'

The manager coaches the opposition vets team, who won the Top Division championship the previous campaign, together with Paul Maguire.

"Our team scored one-nil up and had a