🔗 Share this article Meet the Weekend League Squad Featuring Nearly Two Thousand English Top Division Games This bench for Wythenshawe Veterans during a six-two win versus their opponents on October 19th (from left to right) - Oumar Niasse, Papiss Cisse, Marcel Edwards, Blake Norton, Maynor Figueroa, Dean Warburton and Emile Heskey How can you boost a excellent veteran squad that have secured consecutive championships, featuring a league-cup double with 30 wins from thirty-two games? Sign a group of ex- pro players that have played at the elite tier of club and global soccer as you pursue further trophies. One Manchester team boasts an amateur vets team with 9 ex- top-flight footballers in their current roster. 222 Premier League Scores, Three Hundred Twenty-Five Global Caps The team Veterans Over 35s are situated in southern Manchester and compete in the Cheshire-based Vets Division Top Tier. The squad list this season includes nine former Premier League players, with a collective over 1,800 Premier League appearances. This elite squad also includes over 220 top division goals and 325 global caps. They feature one forward, who netted 37 scores in 117 games for Newcastle United after joining them for £9m from German league side Freiburg in 2012. Cisse made his first appearance for Wythenshawe in their last home-field match against reigning title holders their rivals and scored every one of the six scores in a 6-2 victory - featuring a half-hour opening period hat-trick. The team for this season also includes ex- pros such as English and Anfield striker Emile Heskey, Hull and Burnley FC winger George Boyd, Toffees striker Oumar Niasse, Wigan Athletic defender Maynor Figueroa, City pair Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and Premier League title victors Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater. Together, the ex- Premier League players have secured 15 big honors and transferred for combined transfer fees of about £123 million. Well-Known Figures and Global Players He earned 6 Irish appearances, netting four scores Ireland began turning out for the side in pre-season this summer through close mate and present Wythenshawe teammate Blake Norton, and the former Republic of Ireland midfielder then asked other ex-pros, who all play in a midweek small-sided match, to participate. Former Senegalese forward Niasse, who netted twelve goals in 65 top-flight matches for Everton and still goes to their home games, also made his first appearance versus the opposition - who are based in Liverpool and wear an Everton training kit as their strip. Oumar Niasse played for the club from 2016 and 2020 "My mate Stephen Ireland told me 'come and have a game, it's a laugh'," said Niasse. "After that he informed me we were playing a side from the city and the shock I had when I noticed them sporting Blue shirts - I say this is wrong for me! "When you still love football and you know you can still play, anywhere you can play, what are you going to do? "Those fans who come and watch are happy and to give a day if they watch us playing there and to pose us questions - it's really about the joy of us getting a place we can play, with organisation of course." So great is the squad depth at Wythenshawe, Niasse made his first game at defender. "It's a bit unusual but then, I love running and just go forward - I'm not defending that much," he added. "I tell my centre-back 'I'm not staying' and that I'm just going to keep running. "That movement is what I'm seeking. It's good fun." Former Wigan Athletic defender Maynor Figueroa is turning out for Wythenshawe Unreal Feeling In addition to Cisse's 6 scores on debut, Stephen Ireland has netted eight in three games for the side, while Boyd scored 5 on his first appearance and Lescott, a defender by trade, notched a triple in one game as a striker. The team are leading of the Top Division with three wins from 3 and a goal difference of +19. One opponent, 38, who plays on the flank for Collegiate OB, faced ex- Latics defender Figueroa on Sunday - and had to explain his nine-year-old boy who Emile Heskey was. He has played at two global tournaments for his country, in as well as playing in over two hundred top-flight matches. "It was going round like a rumor they had all these former top-flight stars," said the player. "I felt I was a little awestruck playing against him to be honest. "Even Heskey came on and he's has over 60 England appearances. "We held our own for a solid twenty mins but then we had a player dismissed and it was hard. "Our group literally have not ceased talking about it - I was calling my mum and brother on the journey home. "The opponents were all dead sound, shaking our hands after the game - it was like facing a group of normal fellas. "Now we are eager for the second fixture." 'We'll Still Win the League' Andy Kirby coaches the Collegiate veterans side, who secured the Premier Division championship the previous campaign, together with Paul Maguire. "We went one-nil ahead and had a