Discover this Weekend Division Club Boasting 1,800 Premier League Appearances

How do you enhance a excellent veteran team that have claimed back-to-back titles, featuring a double triumph boasting thirty wins from thirty-two matches?

Bring in a collection of former pro players that have competed at the elite level of club football and international soccer as you aim for more trophies.

One Greater Manchester team fields an non-professional veterans team with nine ex- Premier League footballers in their current lineup.

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

The team Veterans Over 35s are based in south the city and play in the Cheshire Vets Division Premier Division.

Their lineup this campaign includes nine ex- top-flight footballers, with a total nearly 1,800 Premier League games.

This elite squad also boasts 222 top division goals and over 320 global appearances.

The squad include one forward, who netted 37 scores in 117 games for his former club after moving to them for nine million pounds from Bundesliga club SC Freiburg in January 2012.

Cisse made his debut for the team in their last home-field match against reigning title holders their rivals and scored every one of the six goals in a six-two victory - including a 32-minute opening period hat-trick.

The team for this season also includes former pros such as English and Liverpool forward Emile Heskey, Hull and Burnley FC midfielder George Boyd, Toffees striker Oumar Niasse, Wigan full-back Maynor Figueroa, City duo Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and top-flight championship victors Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

Collectively, the former top-flight players have secured fifteen significant trophies and transferred for combined transfer fees of about £123m.

Well-Known Names and Global Players

Stephen Ireland began turning out for the side in preseason this summer through close mate and present Wythenshawe player Blake Norton, and the ex- Irish midfielder then asked additional former professionals, who all compete in a midweek small-sided match, to join in.

Ex- Senegalese forward Oumar Niasse, who netted 12 goals in sixty-five Premier League matches for the Toffees and even now attends their matches at Goodison Park, also had his debut against Collegiate OB - who are located in Liverpool and wear an Everton training kit as their uniform.

"My mate Stephen said 'come and play, it's a laugh'," commented the striker.

"Then he informed me we were playing a team from Liverpool and the shock I had when I saw them sporting Everton kits - I say this is wrong for me!

"If you still love the game and you feel you can still do it, wherever you can play, what are you going to do?

"Those spectators who turn up and watch are happy and to make a moment if they watch us playing there and to ask us questions - it's really about the pleasure of us getting a place we can enjoy football, with organisation of course."

Such is the bench strength at the club, he had his debut at full-back.

"That's a bit different but then, I enjoy running and just go forward - I'm not defending that much," he added.

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

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

Unreal Feeling

In addition to the forward's 6 scores on debut, Stephen Ireland has netted eight in three games for the side, while George Boyd hit 5 on his debut match and Joleon Lescott, a centre-half by trade, scored a triple in one match up front.

The team are top of the Premier Division with three victories from three and a GD of plus nineteen.

One opponent, 38, who plays on the flank for Collegiate OB, came up against ex- Wigan defender Maynor Figueroa on the weekend - and had to explain his young son who Heskey was.

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

"The news was spreading like a rumor they had all these ex-Premier League players," said the player.

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

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

"Our side held our own for a solid 20 mins but then we had a player sent off and it was tough.

"Our group literally have not stopped talking about it - I was phoning my mum and sibling on the way home.

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

"Now we are eager for the second match."

'We'll Still Win the League'

The manager coaches the Collegiate veterans side, who won the Top Tier title the previous campaign, along with Paul Maguire.

"We went 1-0 up and had a