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How do you enhance a excellent veteran squad that have won consecutive championships, featuring a league-cup double boasting 30 victories from thirty-two games?

Bring in a group of ex- pro players who have played at the elite tier of club and international soccer as you target more honors.

A Manchester team boasts an amateur veterans team with nine ex- Premier League footballers in their current roster.

Two Hundred Twenty-Two Premier League Goals, 325 Global Caps

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

Their roster this campaign features nine ex- Premier League footballers, with a collective over 1,800 Premier League games.

This elite team also contains 222 Premier League scores and 325 global appearances.

The squad include one forward, who notched 37 scores in over 100 games for his former club after moving to them for £9m from German league club Freiburg in January 2012.

Cisse made his debut for the team in their last home match against reigning title holders their rivals and scored every one of the six scores in a six-two win - including a 32-minute first-half triple.

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

In total, the ex- top-flight footballers have secured 15 major honors and transferred for combined transfer sums of around £123 million.

Well-Known Names and International Stars

Ireland began turning out for the team in pre-season this summer through close mate and current Wythenshawe player Blake Norton, and the former Republic of Ireland midfielder then invited other former professionals, who all compete in a midweek small-sided match, to join in.

Former Senegalese forward Oumar Niasse, who netted twelve goals in 65 top-flight matches for Everton and still attends their home games, also had his first appearance versus Collegiate OB - who are located in Liverpool and wear an Everton training kit as their uniform.

"A friend Stephen Ireland said 'join and play, it's enjoyable'," commented Niasse.

"After that he told me we were playing a team from the city and the surprise I had when I noticed them sporting Blue shirts - I say this is wrong for me!

"If you still enjoy the game and you know you can still do it, anywhere you can play, what are you going to choose?

"Those fans who turn up and watch are pleased and to give a day if they watch us competing there and to pose us questions - it's really about the pleasure of us having somewhere we can enjoy football, with structure of course."

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

"It's a bit unusual but then, I enjoy sprinting and just move forward - I'm not defending that much," he said.

"I warn my defender 'I'm not hanging back' and that I'm just going to continue running.

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

Unreal Experience

Along with Cisse's 6 goals on his first game, Ireland has scored eight in three games for the side, while George Boyd hit 5 on his debut match and Joleon Lescott, a centre-half by trade, notched a triple in one match as a striker.

Wythenshawe are leading of the Premier Division with 3 wins from three and a GD of plus nineteen.

Paul Barrow, 38, who plays on the wing for the opposition, came up against former Wigan defender Figueroa on the weekend - and had to explain his young boy who Heskey was.

Figueroa has played at 2 global tournaments for Honduras, in addition to playing in more than two hundred Premier League matches.

"The news was spreading like wildfire they had these former top-flight players," remarked the player.

"I felt I was a little awestruck facing Figueroa to be honest.

"Also Heskey came on and he's has 60-odd England appearances.

"Our side held our own for a good 20 mins but then we had a man dismissed and it was hard.

"We literally have not ceased talking about it - I was phoning my mother and brother on the way home.

"The opponents were all really nice, shaking our hands after the match - it was like playing a group of normal guys.

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

'We'll Still Win the Title'

The manager coaches the Collegiate veterans team, who secured the Premier Tier championship last season, along with Paul Maguire.

"We scored one-nil up and had a