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What do you boost a excellent experienced side that have won back-to-back titles, including a double triumph boasting thirty victories from 32 games?

Recruit a collection of former pro players who have played at the elite tier of club football and international soccer as you target further trophies.

A Greater Manchester team boasts an non-professional vets team with nine ex- Premier League footballers in their present lineup.

222 Premier League Scores, Three Hundred Twenty-Five International Caps

Wythenshawe Vets Over-35s are situated in south the city and play in the Cheshire-based Veterans Division Premier Tier.

The roster this campaign includes 9 ex- top-flight players, with a combined 1,801 top-flight appearances.

The high-profile team also includes 222 Premier League goals and 325 international appearances.

The squad feature one forward, who scored 37 goals in 117 appearances for Newcastle United after moving to them for nine million pounds from Bundesliga club SC Freiburg in 2012.

Cisse made his debut for Wythenshawe in their most recent home match versus defending champions their rivals and scored every one of the six scores in a six-two victory - including a 32-minute first-half triple.

The roster for this season also includes former pros such as English and Liverpool forward Emile Heskey, Hull City and Burnley winger George Boyd, Toffees striker Oumar Niasse, Wigan Athletic 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 won fifteen significant trophies and moved for combined transfer fees of approximately £123 million.

Well-Known Figures and International Players

Stephen Ireland started playing for the side during pre-season this summer through good friend and present team teammate Blake Norton, and the former Irish player then invited additional ex-pros, who all play in a midweek small-sided match, to join in.

Ex- Senegalese striker Niasse, who scored twelve scores in 65 Premier League matches for the Toffees and even now attends their home games, also had his debut versus Collegiate OB - who are based in Liverpool and use an Everton training kit as their strip.

"A friend Stephen told me 'join and have a game, it's good fun'," said the striker.

"Then he informed me we were playing a team from the city and the surprise I had when I saw them sporting Blue kits - I say this is wrong for me!

"When you still enjoy the game and you feel you can still do it, wherever you can kick a ball, what are you going to choose?

"Those fans 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 more like the pleasure of us getting somewhere we can play, with organisation of course."

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

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

"I tell my defender 'I'm not staying' and that I'm just going to continue running.

"The running is what I'm looking for. It's enjoyable."

Dreamlike' Experience

In addition to the forward's six scores on debut, Ireland has netted eight in 3 appearances for the side, while Boyd hit 5 on his first appearance and Lescott, a defender by trade, notched a hat-trick in one match as a striker.

The team are leading of the Premier Division with 3 victories from 3 and a goal difference of plus nineteen.

One opponent, 38, who plays on the wing for Collegiate OB, faced former Wigan full-back Figueroa on Sunday - and had to tell his young son who Emile Heskey was.

Figueroa has played at 2 global tournaments for Honduras, in addition to featuring in over two hundred Premier League matches.

"It was spreading like wildfire they had these ex-Premier League stars," said Barrow.

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

"Also Heskey got on and he's has over 60 English appearances.

"We competed well for a solid twenty minutes but then we had a player sent off and it was hard.

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

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

"Now we are eager for the return fixture."

'We'll Still Take the League'

The manager coaches the Collegiate vets team, who secured the Premier Division championship last season, along with his co-manager.

"Our team went 1-0 up and had a