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How can you boost a stellar veteran team that have won consecutive championships, including a league-cup double with thirty wins from 32 games?

Bring in a raft of former professionals that have performed at the elite level of club football and global soccer as you pursue further trophies.

One Manchester side has an amateur vets squad with 9 ex- Premier League footballers in their active lineup.

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

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

Their roster this campaign includes 9 former top-flight players, with a total nearly 1,800 top-flight matches.

The elite squad also includes over 220 top division scores and over 320 international appearances.

The squad feature Papiss Cisse, who notched thirty-seven goals in over 100 games for his former club after signing for them for £9m from Bundesliga club SC Freiburg in 2012.

He made his debut for the team in their most recent home match against defending champions Collegiate Old Boys and netted every one of the six scores in a 6-2 victory - including a 32-minute opening period triple.

The team for this season also features former pros such as England and Liverpool striker Emile Heskey, Hull City and Burnley FC winger George Boyd, Toffees forward Oumar Niasse, Wigan Athletic full-back Maynor Figueroa, Manchester City duo Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and Premier League championship victors Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

Collectively, the former Premier League footballers have won 15 significant honors and moved for total transfer sums of approximately £123 million.

Famous Names and International Stars

Ireland started playing for the team in preseason this season through close mate and current Wythenshawe player Blake Norton, and the ex- Republic of Ireland player then asked additional former professionals, who all compete in a weekly small-sided game, to join in.

Ex- Senegal forward Niasse, who netted 12 scores in sixty-five top-flight matches for the Toffees and still attends their matches at Goodison Park, also had his first appearance versus the opposition - who are based in the city and use an Blue warm-up gear as their strip.

"A mate Stephen told me 'come and play, it's a laugh'," commented the striker.

"After that he informed me we were playing a side from the city and the surprise I had when I saw them wearing Blue kits - I say this is wrong for me!

"If you still enjoy football and you feel you can still do it, wherever you can play, what are you going to do?

"Those people who come and watch are pleased and to make a moment if they see us playing there and to pose us queries - it's more like the pleasure of us getting a place we can enjoy football, with structure of course."

So great is the squad depth at Wythenshawe, Niasse made his first game at full-back.

"It's a little unusual but then, I love sprinting and just move forward - I'm not defending that much," he said.

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

"That running is what I'm seeking. It's enjoyable."

Dreamlike' Feeling

In addition to the forward's 6 scores on his first game, Ireland has scored 8 in three appearances for the side, while George Boyd hit 5 on his debut match and Joleon Lescott, a defender by position, notched a triple in one match as a striker.

Wythenshawe are top of the Top Division with three victories from three and a GD of +19.

Paul Barrow, 38, who features on the wing for the opposition, faced ex- Latics full-back Figueroa on Sunday - and had to tell his young boy who Emile Heskey was.

Figueroa has played at two global tournaments for his country, in as well as featuring in more than 200 Premier League games.

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

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

"Also Emile [Heskey] came on and he's got over 60 England appearances.

"Our side held our own for a good 20 minutes but then we had a man sent off and it was hard.

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

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

"Now we are eager for the second fixture."

'We'll Still Take the Title'

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

"Our team went one-nil ahead and had a