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How can you boost a outstanding veteran squad who have secured back-to-back titles, including a double triumph with 30 wins from thirty-two matches?

Sign a group of former pro players who have played at the elite tier of club and international football as you aim for more honors.

A Greater Manchester team boasts an non-professional vets team with nine ex- Premier League footballers in their current lineup.

222 Top Division Scores, 325 Global Caps

The team Vets Over-35s are situated in south Manchester and play in the Cheshire Vets Division Top Tier.

The squad list this campaign features nine former top-flight players, with a combined over 1,800 elite games.

This high-profile team also includes over 220 top division goals and 325 global appearances.

The squad include Papiss Cisse, who notched 37 scores in over 100 appearances for his former club after joining them for £9m from German league side Freiburg in January 2012.

He had his first appearance for Wythenshawe in their last home-field match versus reigning title holders Collegiate Old Boys and scored all six goals in a six-two victory - including a half-hour opening period hat-trick.

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

Collectively, the ex- top-flight footballers have claimed fifteen significant honors and moved for combined transfer fees of around £123 million.

Household Figures and International Stars

Ireland began turning out for the team in preseason this summer through good mate and present team teammate Blake Norton, and the ex- Irish midfielder then asked other former professionals, who all play in a weekly small-sided game, to join in.

Former Senegalese striker Oumar Niasse, who scored 12 goals in sixty-five top-flight games for the Toffees and still attends their matches at Goodison Park, also had his debut against the opposition - who are based in Liverpool and wear an Blue warm-up gear as their uniform.

"My friend Stephen said 'come and play, it's a laugh'," said Niasse.

"Then he told me we were facing a team from Liverpool and the surprise I had when I saw them wearing Everton kits - I thought this is strange for me!

"If you still enjoy football and you know you can still play, wherever you can kick a ball, what are you going to do?

"Those spectators who come and watch are happy and to make a moment if they see us playing there and to ask us queries - it's really about the pleasure of us getting a place we can play, with structure of course."

So great is the bench strength at the club, he made his debut at defender.

"It's a bit unusual but then, I enjoy running and just move forward - I'm not defending that much," he added.

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

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

Dreamlike' Feeling

Along with the forward's 6 goals on debut, Ireland has scored eight in 3 appearances for the side, while George Boyd hit 5 on his first match and Lescott, a centre-half by position, scored a hat-trick in one match as a striker.

The team are top of the Top Tier with 3 wins from three and a GD of plus nineteen.

One opponent, thirty-eight, who plays on the wing for the opposition, came up against ex- Latics full-back Maynor Figueroa on the weekend - and had to tell his nine-year-old son who Emile Heskey was.

Figueroa has appeared at two global tournaments for Honduras, in as well as playing in over 200 top-flight matches.

"The news was going round like a rumor they had all these ex-Premier League stars," said the player.

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

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

"Our side competed well for a good twenty mins but then we had a player sent off and it was hard.

"Our group literally have not stopped talking about it - I was phoning my mother and sibling on the journey home.

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

"Now we are eager for the return match."

We Will Still Take the League'

Andy Kirby manages the Collegiate veterans side, who won the Premier Division championship last season, along with Paul Maguire.

"Our team went one-nil ahead and had a