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How can you boost a outstanding veteran squad that have secured back-to-back championships, featuring a double triumph with 30 victories from 32 games?

Bring in a group of former pro players that have performed at the elite tier of club and global soccer as you target additional honors.

One Greater Manchester side has an amateur vets team with 9 ex- top-flight footballers in their present lineup.

222 Premier League Scores, 325 Global Caps

The team Vets Over-35s are located in southern Manchester and compete in the Cheshire Veterans Division Top Division.

The lineup this season boasts 9 ex- Premier League players, with a combined 1,801 Premier League matches.

The star-studded roster also boasts over 220 top division scores and over 320 global caps.

The squad feature Papiss Cisse, who netted 37 scores in 117 appearances for his former club after joining them for £9m from Bundesliga side Freiburg in 2012.

He made his first appearance for Wythenshawe in their last home match versus defending champions their rivals and scored all six goals in a 6-2 win - featuring a 32-minute opening period triple.

The team for this season also includes former professionals such as England and Liverpool striker Emile Heskey, Hull and Burnley midfielder George Boyd, Toffees forward Oumar Niasse, Wigan Athletic full-back Maynor Figueroa, City duo Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and top-flight championship winners Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

Collectively, the former Premier League footballers have won fifteen major honors and transferred for combined transfer sums of around £123m.

Well-Known Names and International Stars

Stephen Ireland started playing for the side during pre-season this summer through close friend and current team teammate Blake Norton, and the former Republic of Ireland player then invited other former professionals, who all play in a midweek nine-a-side match, to join in.

Ex- Senegalese forward Niasse, who scored twelve goals in sixty-five Premier League matches for Everton and even now attends their matches at Goodison Park, also had his first appearance versus the opposition - who are located in Liverpool and wear an Blue training kit as their strip.

"A friend Stephen told me 'come and play, it's a laugh'," said Niasse.

"Then he informed me we were facing a team from Liverpool and the surprise I had when I noticed them sporting Everton shirts - I thought this is strange for me!

"When you still love the game and you feel you can still play, wherever you can play, what are you going to choose?

"The people who turn up and see are pleased and to give a day if they see us playing there and to pose us questions - it's really about the joy of us having somewhere we can play, with organisation of course."

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

"It's a bit unusual but then, I enjoy sprinting and just go forward - I'm not staying back that much," he added.

"I tell my defender 'I'm not hanging back' and that I'm just going to keep attacking.

"The movement is what I'm after. It's good fun."

Unreal Experience

Along with Cisse's 6 scores on his first game, Stephen Ireland has netted eight in 3 games for Wythenshawe, while Boyd scored 5 on his first appearance and Joleon Lescott, a defender by trade, scored a triple in one game as a striker.

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

Paul Barrow, thirty-eight, who features on the wing for the opposition, faced ex- Latics full-back Figueroa on Sunday - and had to tell his young boy who Heskey was.

Figueroa has played at 2 global tournaments for his country, in as well as featuring in over two hundred top-flight matches.

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

"I felt I was a bit starstruck playing against Figueroa to be honest.

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

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

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

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

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

We Will Still Take the Title'

The manager manages the opposition vets team, who secured the Top Division title the previous campaign, along with his co-manager.

"Our team scored 1-0 up and had a