Discover this Sunday Division Team Featuring 1,800 Premier League Appearances

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A Greater Manchester side fields an amateur vets team with 9 ex- top-flight footballers in their current squad.

222 Top Division Scores, Three Hundred Twenty-Five International Appearances

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

The roster this season features nine ex- Premier League players, with a combined over 1,800 top-flight games.

This high-profile squad also contains over 220 Premier League goals and 325 international appearances.

They feature one forward, who scored 37 scores in 117 games for Newcastle United after signing for them for nine million pounds from Bundesliga side Freiburg in 2012.

He had his first appearance for the team in their most recent home-field match against reigning champions Collegiate Old Boys and netted all six goals in a 6-2 win - featuring a 32-minute opening period hat-trick.

Wythenshawe's team for this campaign also features ex- pros such as English and Liverpool striker Emile Heskey, Hull City and Burnley winger George Boyd, Toffees striker Oumar Niasse, Wigan full-back Maynor Figueroa, Manchester City pair Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and top-flight championship victors Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

Together, the former Premier League players have claimed fifteen major honors and moved for combined transfer sums of around £123m.

Well-Known Figures and International Players

Ireland started playing for the side in pre-season this summer through good friend and current Wythenshawe teammate Blake Norton, and the former Irish player then invited additional ex-pros, who all compete in a weekly nine-a-side match, to participate.

Former Senegalese forward Niasse, who netted twelve scores in 65 top-flight matches for Everton and even now goes to their home games, also had his first appearance versus the opposition - who are located in Liverpool and wear an Everton training kit as their uniform.

"My friend Stephen told me 'join and have a game, it's good fun'," commented Niasse.

"Then he informed me we were playing a team from the city and the shock I had when I saw them sporting Everton shirts - I thought this is strange for me!

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

"Those fans who come and watch are pleased and to give someone's moment if they see us playing there and to ask us queries - it's really about the joy of us getting a place we can enjoy football, with structure of course."

So great is the bench strength at the club, Niasse had his debut at defender.

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

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

"The running is what I'm seeking. It's enjoyable."

Dreamlike' Scenario

Along with Cisse's 6 goals on his first game, Stephen Ireland has netted eight in 3 appearances for the side, while George Boyd hit five on his first match and Lescott, a defender by position, notched a hat-trick in one game up front.

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

One opponent, 38, who features on the flank for Collegiate OB, came up against former Latics full-back Maynor Figueroa on the weekend - and had to explain his nine-year-old son who Heskey was.

Figueroa has appeared at 2 World Cups for Honduras, in addition to featuring in more than 200 top-flight games.

"The news was spreading like a rumor they had these ex-Premier League stars," said Barrow.

"I felt I was a little awestruck facing Figueroa to be honest.

"Even Emile [Heskey] got on and he's got over 60 English appearances.

"Our side held our own for a good 20 mins but then we had a man sent off and it was hard.

"Our group really haven't stopped chatting about it - I was calling my mum and sibling on the way home.

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

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

'We'll Still Take the League'

Andy Kirby manages the Collegiate veterans team, who won the Premier Division championship the previous campaign, along with his co-manager.

"Our team scored 1-0 up and had a