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How can you enhance a excellent experienced team that have claimed consecutive championships, including a league-cup double boasting 30 victories from 32 games?

Sign a group of former professionals that have performed at the elite tier of club football and international football as you pursue further silverware.

A Greater Manchester club has an amateur veterans team with nine former Premier League footballers in their current roster.

Two Hundred Twenty-Two Top Division Scores, Three Hundred Twenty-Five International Appearances

The team Vets Over 35s are based in southern the city and compete in the Cheshire-based Vets League Top Tier.

Their lineup this campaign boasts 9 ex- Premier League players, with a collective nearly 1,800 top-flight appearances.

The elite roster also boasts over 220 top division goals and 325 international caps.

The squad feature one forward, who notched thirty-seven goals in 117 appearances for his former club after joining them for nine million pounds from German league side SC Freiburg in January 2012.

Cisse had his first appearance for the team in their last home game versus reigning champions Collegiate Old Boys and netted all six goals in a 6-2 victory - featuring a 32-minute first-half hat-trick.

Wythenshawe's squad for this season also features former pros such as English and Anfield striker Emile Heskey, Hull and Burnley FC winger George Boyd, Everton striker Oumar Niasse, Wigan Athletic defender Maynor Figueroa, City duo Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and Premier League title winners Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

In total, the former Premier League footballers have claimed fifteen major honors and transferred for total transfer sums of around £123m.

Well-Known Names and Global Stars

Ireland began turning out for the side in preseason this summer through close mate and current team teammate Blake Norton, and the ex- Republic of Ireland midfielder then invited other ex-pros, who all play in a midweek nine-a-side match, to participate.

Ex- Senegalese striker Niasse, who scored 12 goals in 65 top-flight games for the Toffees and even now goes to their matches at Goodison Park, also made his debut against the opposition - who are based in Liverpool and wear an Blue warm-up gear as their strip.

"My mate Stephen Ireland said 'join and play, it's enjoyable'," commented Niasse.

"After that he told me we were playing 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 football and you know you can still do it, anywhere you can kick a ball, what are you going to choose?

"The people who turn up and watch are pleased and to make someone's moment if they watch us playing there and to ask us queries - it's really about the joy of us getting somewhere we can enjoy football, with structure of course."

Such is the strength in depth at Wythenshawe, Niasse had his debut at defender.

"It's a little unusual but then, I enjoy sprinting and just go inside - I'm not defending that much," he said.

"I warn my defender 'I'm not staying' and that I'm just going to keep running.

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

Unreal Scenario

Along with Cisse's 6 goals on debut, Stephen Ireland has scored eight in 3 appearances for Wythenshawe, while Boyd hit 5 on his first match and Joleon Lescott, a centre-half by position, scored a triple in one match as a striker.

Wythenshawe are top of the Top Division with 3 victories from 3 and a goal difference of plus nineteen.

Paul Barrow, 38, who plays on the wing for the opposition, faced former Latics defender Maynor Figueroa on the weekend - and had to explain his nine-year-old son who Heskey was.

He has played at two global tournaments for Honduras, in addition to featuring in more than two hundred top-flight matches.

"It was spreading like wildfire they had all these former top-flight players," remarked Barrow.

"I think I was a bit awestruck facing Figueroa to be honest.

"Also Heskey came on and he's has 60-odd English caps.

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

"We really have not ceased chatting about it - I was calling my mother and brother on the way home.

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

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

We Will Still Take the League'

The manager coaches the Collegiate vets team, who secured the Premier Division championship the previous campaign, along with Paul Maguire.

"Our team went 1-0 up and had a