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How can you enhance a outstanding experienced side that have secured consecutive championships, including a double triumph with thirty wins from 32 games?

Sign a collection of ex- pro players who have played at the top level of club football and international football as you target additional honors.

A Manchester club boasts an non-professional vets squad with nine former top-flight footballers in their current squad.

222 Premier League Scores, 325 International Caps

The team Veterans Over 35s are situated in south the city and play in the Cheshire Vets Division Top Tier.

Their squad list this campaign includes nine former Premier League players, with a total nearly 1,800 Premier League matches.

This elite roster also includes 222 top division scores and 325 international appearances.

They include one forward, who notched thirty-seven scores in 117 games for Newcastle United after signing for them for nine million pounds from German league club SC Freiburg in 2012.

Cisse made his first appearance for the team in their last home game versus defending champions Collegiate Old Boys and netted every one of the six scores in a six-two win - featuring a 32-minute first-half hat-trick.

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

In total, the ex- top-flight footballers have claimed fifteen significant trophies and transferred for total transfer sums of approximately £123 million.

Well-Known Names and Global Players

Ireland began turning out for the team during pre-season this season through good friend and current Wythenshawe player Blake Norton, and the ex- Republic of Ireland midfielder then asked additional former professionals, who all play in a midweek small-sided match, to join in.

Former Senegal striker Niasse, who scored 12 scores in 65 Premier League matches for the Toffees and still attends their matches at Goodison Park, also made his debut against Collegiate OB - who are located in the city and use an Blue warm-up gear as their uniform.

"A friend Stephen told me 'join and play, it's enjoyable'," said the striker.

"After that he told me we were facing a team from the city and the surprise I had when I saw them wearing Everton shirts - I thought this is strange for me!

"If you still love football and you know you can still play, anywhere you can play, what are you going to choose?

"The spectators who turn up and watch are pleased and to make a moment if they see us competing there and to ask us questions - it's really about the joy of us getting somewhere we can enjoy football, with organisation of course."

So great is the squad depth at the club, he made his first game at defender.

"It's a bit different but then, I love 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 seeking. It's enjoyable."

Unreal Feeling

In addition to the forward's six scores on his first game, Stephen Ireland has scored 8 in 3 games for the side, while Boyd hit 5 on his first appearance and Joleon Lescott, a defender 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 plays on the flank for Collegiate OB, came up against ex- Wigan full-back Figueroa on Sunday - and had to explain his nine-year-old boy who Heskey was.

He has played at 2 global tournaments for his country, in as well as playing in over 200 top-flight games.

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

"I think I was a little starstruck playing against him to be honest.

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

"Our side competed well for a solid 20 mins but then we had a player dismissed and it was hard.

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

"They were all really nice, shaking our hands after the game - it was like facing a bunch of regular fellas.

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

'We'll Still Win the League'

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

"Our team scored one-nil ahead and had a