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One Greater Manchester side has an amateur vets squad with nine ex- Premier League footballers in their present lineup.
Two Hundred Twenty-Two Premier League Scores, 325 Global Appearances
Wythenshawe Veterans Over 35s are situated in south Manchester and compete in the Cheshire Vets Division Premier Tier.
Their lineup this campaign includes 9 ex- Premier League footballers, with a collective 1,801 Premier League matches.
This elite team also includes 222 Premier League scores and 325 international caps.
The squad include one forward, who scored thirty-seven goals in 117 appearances for his former club after signing for them for £9m from German league club SC Freiburg in 2012.
He had his debut for Wythenshawe in their most recent home-field game against defending title holders their rivals and netted every one of the six scores in a 6-2 victory - featuring a half-hour opening period hat-trick.
The team for this campaign also features former professionals such as England and Anfield forward Emile Heskey, Hull City and Burnley FC winger George Boyd, Toffees forward Oumar Niasse, Wigan full-back Maynor Figueroa, City duo Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and top-flight championship victors Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.
Together, the ex- top-flight players have won 15 big trophies and transferred for combined transfer fees of around £123m.
Household Names and International Players
Ireland began playing for the side in pre-season this summer through close mate and present Wythenshawe teammate Blake Norton, and the ex- Irish player then invited additional ex-pros, who all play in a weekly small-sided match, to participate.
Ex- Senegalese forward Oumar Niasse, who netted twelve goals in sixty-five Premier League games for the Toffees and still goes to their home games, also made his first appearance against Collegiate OB - who are located in the city and wear an Blue warm-up gear as their strip.
"A mate Stephen Ireland told me 'come and have a game, it's enjoyable'," commented Niasse.
"Then he told me we were playing a team from the city and the surprise I had when I saw them wearing Blue shirts - I say this is strange for me!
"When you still love football and you know you can still play, wherever you can kick a ball, what are you going to choose?
"Those people who come and watch are happy and to give a day if they see us competing there and to ask us queries - it's really about the joy of us getting somewhere we can play, with structure of course."
So great is the bench strength at Wythenshawe, Niasse made his first game at defender.
"That's a bit unusual but then, I love running and just move inside - I'm not staying back that much," he added.
"I tell my centre-back 'I'm not staying' and that I'm just going to continue running.
"That movement is what I'm looking for. It's enjoyable."
Dreamlike' Scenario
In addition to Cisse's 6 scores on his first game, Stephen Ireland has netted 8 in 3 appearances for Wythenshawe, while Boyd scored 5 on his first match and Lescott, a defender by trade, scored a hat-trick in one game as a striker.
The team are top of the Top Tier with three wins from three and a goal difference of +19.
One opponent, 38, who features on the flank for Collegiate OB, faced former Latics full-back Maynor Figueroa on Sunday - and had to tell his nine-year-old boy who Heskey was.
He has appeared at two global tournaments for Honduras, in as well as playing in more than two hundred Premier League matches.
"The news was going round like wildfire they had these ex-Premier League players," remarked the player.
"I felt I was a bit awestruck playing against him to be honest.
"Also Emile [Heskey] got on and he's has over 60 English caps.
"Our side competed well for a good twenty mins but then we had a player dismissed and it was tough.
"Our group literally haven't stopped chatting about it - I was phoning my mother and sibling on the way home.
"The opponents were all really nice, shaking our hands after the game - it was like playing a bunch of normal guys.
"Now we can't wait for the second fixture."
We Will Still Take the League'
The manager manages the Collegiate veterans team, who won the Premier Tier title the previous campaign, along with his co-manager.
"Our team went 1-0 up and had a
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