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How can you boost a excellent veteran team who have secured back-to-back championships, featuring a double triumph boasting 30 victories from 32 matches?

Bring in a collection of ex- professionals that have performed at the highest tier of club and international soccer as you target additional honors.

One Greater Manchester side has an non-professional vets team with 9 former Premier League players in their current squad.

222 Top Division Goals, 325 Global Appearances

Wythenshawe Vets Over-35s are located in southern the city and compete in the Cheshire Vets Division Premier Division.

The roster this season boasts 9 ex- top-flight players, with a collective over 1,800 Premier League appearances.

This high-profile team also boasts over 220 Premier League scores and 325 international appearances.

They include one forward, who scored 37 goals in over 100 appearances for his former club after signing for them for £9m from German league side SC Freiburg in January 2012.

Cisse had his first appearance for Wythenshawe in their last home match against reigning champions their rivals and netted all six scores in a 6-2 win - featuring a half-hour first-half triple.

The squad for this season also includes former professionals 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 pair Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and Premier League title winners Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

Collectively, the ex- top-flight footballers have won 15 significant trophies and transferred for combined transfer fees of approximately £123 million.

Household Figures and International Stars

Stephen Ireland started turning out for the side during pre-season this season through good friend and current Wythenshawe teammate Blake Norton, and the former Irish midfielder then asked additional former professionals, who all compete in a midweek small-sided game, to participate.

Ex- Senegalese forward Oumar Niasse, who netted twelve goals in sixty-five top-flight matches for Everton and still goes to their matches at Goodison Park, also had his debut against the opposition - who are located in Liverpool and wear an Everton warm-up gear as their strip.

"A friend Stephen told me 'come and have a game, it's good fun'," said the striker.

"Then he told me we were playing a side from Liverpool and the surprise I had when I saw them sporting Everton shirts - I thought this is wrong for me!

"When you still enjoy the game and you know you can still play, anywhere you can play, what are you going to choose?

"The spectators who come and see are happy and to make someone's moment if they watch us playing there and to pose us queries - it's more like the joy of us getting somewhere we can enjoy football, with organisation of course."

Such is the squad depth at Wythenshawe, he made his debut at defender.

"That's a bit different 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 continue running.

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

Unreal Feeling

In addition to Cisse's 6 scores on debut, Ireland has netted 8 in 3 games for Wythenshawe, while George Boyd hit 5 on his debut match and Joleon Lescott, a centre-half by trade, scored a triple in one match as a striker.

The team are leading of the Premier Division with 3 victories from three and a GD of plus nineteen.

Paul Barrow, thirty-eight, who plays on the wing for the opposition, faced ex- Wigan defender Maynor Figueroa on the weekend - and had to explain his young son who Emile Heskey was.

Figueroa has appeared at two World Cups for Honduras, in as well as playing in over two hundred top-flight matches.

"It was spreading like a rumor they had these ex-Premier League players," remarked Barrow.

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

"Also Heskey came on and he's has over 60 England caps.

"Our side held our own for a good twenty minutes but then we had a player dismissed and it was tough.

"We literally haven't stopped talking about it - I was calling my mother and sibling on the journey home.

"The opponents were all dead sound, 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 Title'

The manager coaches the opposition vets team, who won the Top Tier championship the previous campaign, together with Paul Maguire.

"We scored 1-0 ahead and had a