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A Greater Manchester team has an non-professional vets squad with 9 former top-flight players in their active roster.
Wythenshawe Vets Over 35s are located in southern the city and play in the Cheshire-based Veterans Division Premier Tier.
Their roster this campaign features 9 former Premier League players, with a total 1,801 Premier League matches.
The high-profile team also includes over 220 top division scores and 325 global caps.
They include one forward, who scored 37 goals in over 100 games for Newcastle United after joining them for £9m from Bundesliga side SC Freiburg in January 2012.
He had his debut for Wythenshawe in their most recent home match versus reigning title holders Collegiate Old Boys and scored all six goals in a 6-2 win - featuring a 32-minute first-half triple.
The roster for this campaign also includes ex- professionals such as English and Anfield striker Emile Heskey, Hull and Burnley midfielder George Boyd, Everton striker Oumar Niasse, Wigan Athletic full-back Maynor Figueroa, City duo Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and Premier League title victors Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.
In total, the former Premier League footballers have claimed 15 major honors and transferred for total transfer sums of about £123 million.
Ireland began turning out for the side during preseason this summer through close friend and current Wythenshawe teammate Blake Norton, and the former Republic of Ireland player then asked other former professionals, who all compete in a weekly small-sided match, to participate.
Ex- Senegal forward Oumar Niasse, who netted 12 goals in 65 top-flight games for the Toffees and still goes to their matches at Goodison Park, also made his debut against the opposition - who are located in the city and wear an Blue warm-up gear as their strip.
"My friend Stephen told me 'come and have a game, it's good fun'," commented Niasse.
"Then 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!
"If you still love football and you know you can still play, wherever you can kick a ball, what are you going to do?
"Those people who come and see are pleased and to make someone's moment if they see us competing there and to pose us queries - it's really about the pleasure of us getting a place we can enjoy football, with organisation of course."
So great is the bench strength at Wythenshawe, he had his debut 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 warn my centre-back 'I'm not staying' and that I'm just going to keep attacking.
"The running is what I'm after. It's good fun."
In addition to the forward's 6 scores on his first game, Ireland has scored eight in 3 games for the side, while Boyd hit 5 on his first match and Lescott, a centre-half by position, scored a triple in one game as a striker.
The team are leading of the Top Tier with three wins from 3 and a goal difference of plus nineteen.
Paul Barrow, thirty-eight, who features on the flank for Collegiate OB, came up against ex- Wigan defender Maynor Figueroa on Sunday - and had to explain his young boy who Heskey was.
Figueroa has appeared at two global tournaments for his country, in as well as featuring in over 200 top-flight games.
"It was spreading like a rumor they had these ex-Premier League stars," said the player.
"I felt I was a little starstruck facing him to be honest.
"Also Heskey came on and he's has 60-odd England caps.
"We competed well for a solid 20 minutes but then we had a player dismissed and it was hard.
"Our group literally have not stopped talking about it - I was phoning my mum and sibling on the way home.
"They were all friendly, shaking our hands after the match - it was like facing a bunch of regular fellas.
"Now we can't wait for the second match."
The manager coaches the opposition veterans team, who won the Premier Tier championship last season, together with his co-manager.
"We went one-nil up and had a
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