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How can you enhance a stellar experienced squad that have secured consecutive titles, including a league-cup double boasting 30 victories from thirty-two matches?

Sign a raft of former professionals that have played at the top level of club football and international soccer as you target more trophies.

A Greater Manchester side has an non-professional veterans squad with nine ex- top-flight players in their present lineup.

222 Premier League Scores, Three Hundred Twenty-Five International Caps

The team Veterans Over-35s are situated in south Manchester and compete in the Cheshire-based Vets League Premier Tier.

Their squad list this campaign boasts 9 former Premier League footballers, with a combined over 1,800 Premier League matches.

The star-studded team also boasts 222 Premier League scores and over 320 international appearances.

The squad include Papiss Cisse, who notched 37 goals in over 100 games for his former club after moving to them for nine million pounds from Bundesliga side Freiburg in 2012.

Cisse made his debut for Wythenshawe in their most recent home-field game versus reigning title holders their rivals and netted all six goals in a six-two victory - including a 32-minute opening period hat-trick.

The roster for this campaign also includes ex- professionals such as English and Anfield striker Emile Heskey, Hull City and Burnley winger George Boyd, Everton forward Oumar Niasse, Wigan full-back Maynor Figueroa, City duo Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and Premier League championship winners Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

Collectively, the former top-flight footballers have won fifteen significant honors and moved for combined transfer fees of about £123 million.

Household Names and International Stars

Stephen Ireland began playing for the team during preseason this summer through close friend and current team player Blake Norton, and the ex- Republic of Ireland player then invited other former professionals, who all compete in a midweek nine-a-side match, to participate.

Former Senegal striker Oumar Niasse, who netted twelve goals in sixty-five Premier League matches for the Toffees and still attends their home games, also made his first appearance against the opposition - who are located in Liverpool and wear an Blue warm-up gear as their strip.

"A friend Stephen said 'join and have a game, it's enjoyable'," said the striker.

"After that he informed me we were playing a team 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 the game and you know you can still do it, wherever you can kick a ball, what are you going to choose?

"The spectators who turn up and watch are happy and to make someone's moment if they watch us playing there and to ask us questions - it's more like the pleasure of us having a place we can play, with structure of course."

So great is the bench strength at Wythenshawe, he had his debut at defender.

"That's a bit unusual but then, I enjoy running and just go inside - I'm not staying back that much," he added.

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

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

Dreamlike' Feeling

Along with Cisse's 6 goals on debut, Ireland has scored eight in 3 appearances for the side, while George Boyd scored five on his first appearance and Joleon Lescott, a defender by position, scored a hat-trick in one game up front.

The team are leading of the Premier Tier with three wins from three and a GD of plus nineteen.

Paul Barrow, thirty-eight, who features on the wing for the opposition, came up against former Latics full-back Maynor Figueroa on the weekend - and had to tell his young son who Heskey was.

Figueroa has appeared at 2 World Cups for his country, in as well as featuring in over two hundred top-flight matches.

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

"I felt I was a bit starstruck facing Figueroa to be honest.

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

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

"We really have not stopped chatting about it - I was phoning my mother and sibling on the way home.

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

"Now we are eager for the return fixture."

We Will Still Take the League'

Andy Kirby manages the Collegiate vets team, who won the Top Tier title the previous campaign, along with Paul Maguire.

"We scored one-nil up and had a