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How do you boost a excellent experienced team that have claimed consecutive championships, including a league-cup double boasting thirty wins from 32 matches?

Recruit a raft of ex- professionals that have played at the top tier of club football and international soccer as you target additional honors.

One Greater Manchester side fields an non-professional vets team with nine ex- top-flight players in their active lineup.

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

The team Vets Over 35s are located in south the city and compete in the Cheshire Veterans Division Premier Division.

Their squad list this season includes nine former top-flight footballers, with a combined nearly 1,800 Premier League matches.

The elite squad also includes over 220 top division scores and over 320 global caps.

The squad feature one forward, who notched 37 scores in 117 games for Newcastle United after signing for them for £9m from German league club SC Freiburg in 2012.

Cisse had his debut for Wythenshawe in their last home-field game against defending title holders Collegiate Old Boys and scored every one of the six goals in a 6-2 victory - including a half-hour opening period triple.

The squad for this season also features former professionals such as English and Anfield striker Emile Heskey, Hull City and Burnley FC midfielder George Boyd, Toffees striker Oumar Niasse, Wigan Athletic defender Maynor Figueroa, City duo Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and top-flight championship victors Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

In total, the former Premier League footballers have claimed fifteen big trophies and transferred for combined transfer fees of approximately £123m.

Well-Known Names and Global Players

Ireland started turning out for the team during pre-season this summer through close friend and current team player Blake Norton, and the ex- Republic of Ireland midfielder then invited additional former professionals, who all play in a weekly nine-a-side match, to join in.

Ex- Senegalese striker Oumar Niasse, who scored twelve goals in 65 Premier League games for the Toffees and even now attends their home games, also made his first appearance versus the opposition - who are located in the city and use an Blue training kit as their strip.

"A friend Stephen Ireland told me 'join and have a game, it's a laugh'," said Niasse.

"After that he told me we were facing a side from Liverpool and the shock I had when I saw them wearing Everton kits - I thought this is wrong for me!

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

"Those people who come and watch are happy and to make a day if they watch us competing there and to pose us queries - it's really about the joy of us having somewhere we can play, with organisation of course."

So great is the squad depth at Wythenshawe, he had his debut at defender.

"It's a bit unusual but then, I love sprinting 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.

"That movement is what I'm seeking. It's good fun."

'Surreal Feeling

Along with the forward's six goals on his first game, Stephen Ireland has netted eight in 3 appearances for Wythenshawe, while Boyd scored 5 on his first match and Joleon Lescott, a defender by position, scored a triple in one match up front.

The team are top of the Top Tier with 3 victories from three and a GD of +19.

One opponent, 38, who plays on the wing for Collegiate OB, came up against former Wigan defender Figueroa on the weekend - and had to explain his young boy who Emile Heskey was.

He has played at 2 World Cups for Honduras, in as well as playing in more than two hundred Premier League games.

"It was going round like a rumor they had all these former top-flight players," said Barrow.

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

"Even Heskey came on and he's has over 60 England appearances.

"We held our own for a good twenty mins but then we had a player dismissed and it was tough.

"We literally haven't stopped chatting about it - I was phoning my mother and brother on the way home.

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

"Now we are eager for the second match."

We Will Still Take the Title'

The manager coaches the opposition vets side, who won the Top Tier championship last season, together with his co-manager.

"Our team went one-nil ahead and had a