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What can you improve a excellent experienced side who have won back-to-back championships, featuring a league-cup double with 30 wins from thirty-two games?

Sign a raft of ex- pro players who have performed at the elite tier of club and global soccer as you aim for further silverware.

One Manchester team fields an amateur veterans squad with nine former top-flight footballers in their active lineup.

222 Top Division Goals, 325 Global Caps

The team Vets Over-35s are based in southern Manchester and play in the Cheshire Veterans League Top Tier.

The squad list this campaign includes 9 former Premier League players, with a total over 1,800 Premier League appearances.

This elite roster also boasts over 220 top division scores and over 320 global caps.

They include Papiss Cisse, who notched 37 goals in 117 appearances for Newcastle United after signing for them for £9m from German league club Freiburg in January 2012.

Cisse had his debut for Wythenshawe in their most recent home-field match versus defending champions Collegiate Old Boys and netted every one of the six goals in a 6-2 win - including a half-hour first-half triple.

Wythenshawe's roster for this campaign also features ex- professionals such as England and Liverpool striker Emile Heskey, Hull City and Burnley FC winger George Boyd, Toffees forward Oumar Niasse, Wigan Athletic defender Maynor Figueroa, Manchester City duo Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and top-flight championship victors Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

Together, the former Premier League footballers have secured fifteen major honors and transferred for total transfer fees of approximately £123m.

Household Names and Global Players

Stephen Ireland began turning out for the team in pre-season this summer through close mate and present team player Blake Norton, and the former Republic of Ireland player then asked additional ex-pros, who all compete in a midweek nine-a-side match, to join in.

Former Senegal forward Oumar Niasse, who netted twelve scores in 65 top-flight matches for the Toffees and even now attends their home games, also had his first appearance versus Collegiate OB - who are based in the city and use an Blue training kit as their strip.

"My friend Stephen told me 'join and play, it's good fun'," said the striker.

"Then he informed me we were playing a team from the city and the shock I had when I noticed them sporting Blue shirts - I thought this is wrong for me!

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

"The fans who come and watch are happy and to make a moment if they watch us competing there and to pose us queries - it's really about the joy of us having a place we can play, with structure of course."

Such is the squad depth at the club, Niasse made his first game at defender.

"That's a little different but then, I enjoy sprinting and just go forward - I'm not defending that much," he added.

"I tell my centre-back 'I'm not hanging back' and that I'm just going to keep running.

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

Dreamlike' Scenario

Along with Cisse's six goals on debut, Ireland has netted 8 in three games for Wythenshawe, while Boyd scored 5 on his first appearance and Joleon Lescott, a centre-half by position, scored a hat-trick in one match as a striker.

Wythenshawe are leading of the Premier Division with three victories from three and a goal difference of plus nineteen.

One opponent, thirty-eight, who plays on the wing for the opposition, came up against ex- Wigan full-back Figueroa on the weekend - and had to explain his young son who Emile Heskey was.

He has played at two World Cups for Honduras, in as well as playing in over 200 Premier League games.

"It was spreading like wildfire they had these former top-flight stars," remarked the player.

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

"Even Heskey came on and he's got 60-odd England caps.

"We competed well for a good 20 mins but then we had a man dismissed and it was tough.

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

"The opponents were all dead sound, shaking our hands after the game - it was like playing a group of regular guys.

"Now we are eager for the return fixture."

'We'll Still Win the Title'

Andy Kirby manages the opposition vets team, who secured the Premier Division title last season, along with Paul Maguire.

"Our team went 1-0 up and had a