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What do you enhance a outstanding veteran team who have won back-to-back titles, featuring a league-cup double boasting 30 wins from 32 matches?

Recruit a raft of former professionals who have performed at the highest tier of club and international soccer as you pursue more honors.

One Greater Manchester team has an amateur veterans squad with nine ex- top-flight footballers in their current squad.

222 Premier League Goals, 325 International Appearances

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

The squad list this season features 9 ex- Premier League players, with a combined over 1,800 top-flight appearances.

The star-studded roster also includes 222 Premier League scores and 325 international caps.

They feature Papiss Cisse, who scored thirty-seven goals in 117 games for Newcastle United after joining them for nine million pounds from German league club Freiburg in 2012.

He made his debut for Wythenshawe in their last home-field match versus defending title holders Collegiate Old Boys and netted every one of the six goals in a 6-2 win - including a half-hour opening period triple.

The team for this season also includes former professionals such as English and Liverpool striker Emile Heskey, Hull City and Burnley FC midfielder George Boyd, Everton forward Oumar Niasse, Wigan Athletic defender Maynor Figueroa, City duo Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and Premier League title victors Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

In total, the former top-flight footballers have secured 15 big honors and moved for total transfer sums of approximately £123 million.

Well-Known Names and Global Players

Stephen Ireland started playing for the side during pre-season this season through good mate and current team player Blake Norton, and the former Republic of Ireland midfielder then invited other former professionals, who all play in a weekly small-sided match, to participate.

Former Senegal forward Niasse, who netted 12 goals in 65 Premier League games for the Toffees and even now attends their home games, also made his first appearance versus Collegiate OB - who are located in the city and use an Blue training kit as their uniform.

"My friend Stephen said '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 surprise I had when I noticed them wearing Blue kits - I thought this is strange for me!

"When you still love the game and you know you can still play, anywhere you can play, what are you going to do?

"Those fans who come and see are pleased and to make someone's day if they see us playing there and to pose us questions - it's more like the pleasure of us getting somewhere we can enjoy football, with organisation of course."

So great is the strength in depth at the club, he made his first game at full-back.

"That's a bit different but then, I love running and just go inside - I'm not defending that much," he said.

"I tell my centre-back 'I'm not hanging back' and that I'm just going to keep running.

"That running is what I'm seeking. It's enjoyable."

Dreamlike' Scenario

Along with the forward's six scores on his first game, Stephen Ireland has scored 8 in three appearances for the side, while George Boyd scored five on his debut appearance and Joleon Lescott, a centre-half by position, scored a triple in one game up front.

The team are leading of the Top Division with three victories from 3 and a GD of plus nineteen.

Paul Barrow, thirty-eight, who features on the wing for the opposition, faced ex- Latics defender Maynor Figueroa on Sunday - and had to tell his young son who Emile Heskey was.

Figueroa has appeared at 2 World Cups for Honduras, in addition to playing in over two hundred Premier League games.

"The news was spreading like wildfire they had all these former top-flight players," said Barrow.

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

"Even Heskey got on and he's has over 60 English caps.

"We competed well for a good 20 mins but then we had a player dismissed and it was hard.

"We really haven't ceased chatting about it - I was calling my mother and sibling on the journey home.

"They were all dead sound, shaking our hands after the match - it was like playing a group of regular guys.

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

We Will Still Win the Title'

Andy Kirby coaches the opposition vets team, who won the Premier Tier championship last season, along with his co-manager.

"Our team went 1-0 up and had a