Discover the Weekend League Team Featuring 1,800 Top-Flight Appearances

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A Greater Manchester side has an amateur vets team with 9 former Premier League players in their present lineup.

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

Wythenshawe Veterans Over 35s are located in south the city and compete in the Cheshire-based Veterans Division Top Tier.

Their squad list this season features nine former Premier League footballers, with a collective over 1,800 Premier League games.

The high-profile squad also boasts over 220 top division scores and over 320 global caps.

The squad include one forward, who scored 37 scores in over 100 appearances for Newcastle United after joining them for £9m from German league club SC Freiburg in January 2012.

He made his first appearance for Wythenshawe in their most recent home game against reigning champions Collegiate Old Boys and netted every one of the six scores in a six-two victory - including a 32-minute opening period triple.

Wythenshawe's roster for this season also includes ex- professionals such as England and Liverpool forward Emile Heskey, Hull City and Burnley FC midfielder George Boyd, Everton forward Oumar Niasse, Wigan defender Maynor Figueroa, City pair Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and top-flight title victors Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

In total, the former top-flight footballers have secured 15 big trophies and transferred for combined transfer fees of approximately £123m.

Household Figures and Global Stars

Ireland began turning out for the side in preseason this season through good friend and present Wythenshawe teammate Blake Norton, and the ex- Republic of Ireland midfielder then invited other former professionals, who all compete in a weekly nine-a-side match, to participate.

Ex- Senegalese forward Oumar Niasse, who netted twelve goals in 65 Premier League matches for the Toffees and even now attends their matches at Goodison Park, also made his first appearance versus the opposition - who are based in Liverpool and use an Everton warm-up gear as their uniform.

"A friend Stephen said 'join and have a game, it's good fun'," commented Niasse.

"Then he told me we were facing a side from the city and the surprise I had when I noticed them wearing Blue shirts - I say this is wrong for me!

"When you still enjoy football and you know you can still do it, wherever you can kick a ball, what are you going to do?

"Those people who turn up and see are pleased and to make someone's moment if they see us playing there and to pose us questions - it's really about the joy of us getting somewhere we can play, with organisation of course."

Such is the strength in depth at Wythenshawe, Niasse had his debut at defender.

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

"I warn my defender 'I'm not hanging back' and that I'm just going to continue attacking.

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

Dreamlike' Scenario

Along with Cisse's 6 scores on his first game, Stephen Ireland has scored 8 in three appearances for the side, while Boyd hit five on his first match and Joleon Lescott, a centre-half by position, notched a hat-trick in one game as a striker.

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

Paul Barrow, 38, who features on the flank for Collegiate OB, came up against ex- Latics defender Figueroa on the weekend - and had to explain his nine-year-old boy who Heskey was.

Figueroa has appeared at two global tournaments for his country, in as well as playing in over 200 Premier League matches.

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

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

"Also Heskey got on and he's has over 60 England caps.

"Our side held our own for a good twenty mins but then we had a man sent off and it was hard.

"We really have not stopped chatting about it - I was calling my mother and brother on the way home.

"The opponents were all dead sound, shaking our hands after the game - it was like playing a bunch of regular fellas.

"Now we are eager for the second match."

We Will Still Win the League'

The manager manages the opposition veterans side, who won the Premier Division championship the previous campaign, together with Paul Maguire.

"Our team scored one-nil up and had a