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How do you boost a excellent experienced team that have claimed back-to-back titles, featuring a league-cup double with thirty wins from thirty-two games?

Bring in a raft of ex- pro players that have competed at the top tier of club football and global soccer as you aim for more trophies.

One Greater Manchester side fields an non-professional veterans team with nine former Premier League footballers in their active lineup.

Two Hundred Twenty-Two Premier League Goals, 325 Global Appearances

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

Their lineup this season features 9 ex- top-flight footballers, with a collective 1,801 Premier League games.

The star-studded roster also boasts over 220 Premier League scores and 325 international caps.

The squad feature one forward, who notched thirty-seven scores in 117 games for his former club after moving to them for nine million pounds from German league club SC Freiburg in 2012.

Cisse made his debut for Wythenshawe in their last home-field game versus reigning champions Collegiate Old Boys and scored all six goals in a six-two win - featuring a 32-minute first-half triple.

The roster for this season also includes former professionals such as England and Anfield striker Emile Heskey, Hull and Burnley FC midfielder George Boyd, Toffees striker Oumar Niasse, Wigan defender Maynor Figueroa, Manchester City pair Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and top-flight championship victors Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

In total, the former top-flight footballers have secured 15 major honors and transferred for total transfer fees of approximately £123 million.

Well-Known Figures and Global Players

Stephen Ireland began playing for the side during pre-season this season through close mate and current team teammate Blake Norton, and the former Irish midfielder then invited additional ex-pros, who all compete in a weekly small-sided game, to join in.

Former Senegalese striker Niasse, who scored twelve goals in sixty-five top-flight matches for the Toffees and still attends their home games, also had his first appearance versus Collegiate OB - who are based in Liverpool and wear an Everton training kit as their strip.

"A mate Stephen Ireland told me 'come and have a game, it's a laugh'," said Niasse.

"After that he told me we were facing a side from Liverpool and the surprise I had when I noticed them wearing Everton kits - I thought this is wrong for me!

"If you still enjoy the game and you feel you can still play, anywhere you can play, what are you going to do?

"Those fans who turn up and see are happy and to give someone's day if they watch us playing there and to pose us queries - it's more like the pleasure of us having somewhere we can enjoy football, with organisation of course."

So great is the strength in depth at the club, he made his first game at defender.

"That's a bit different but then, I enjoy sprinting and just move inside - I'm not staying back that much," he said.

"I warn my centre-back 'I'm not staying' and that I'm just going to continue running.

"The movement is what I'm looking for. It's good fun."

Unreal Feeling

In addition to Cisse's six scores on debut, Stephen Ireland has scored eight in three appearances for Wythenshawe, while Boyd hit five on his debut match and Joleon Lescott, a centre-half by trade, scored a triple in one game as a striker.

Wythenshawe are top of the Top Tier with 3 wins from three and a goal difference of plus nineteen.

One opponent, thirty-eight, who plays on the wing for Collegiate OB, came up against former Latics full-back Figueroa on Sunday - and had to tell his young son who Emile Heskey was.

He has appeared at two global tournaments for Honduras, in as well as featuring in more than two hundred Premier League matches.

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

"I felt I was a bit awestruck playing against him to be honest.

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

"Our side competed well for a good 20 minutes but then we had a man sent off and it was tough.

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

'We'll Still Take the League'

Andy Kirby manages the opposition vets team, who secured the Top Tier championship the previous campaign, together with Paul Maguire.

"Our team went 1-0 up and had a