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How do you enhance a excellent veteran squad who have claimed consecutive titles, including a league-cup double boasting thirty wins from thirty-two games?

Bring in a collection of former professionals who have played at the elite tier of club and global football as you pursue additional honors.

A Greater Manchester side boasts an amateur vets squad with nine former top-flight players in their active roster.

222 Top Division Scores, 325 International Appearances

The team Veterans Over-35s are situated in southern Manchester and compete in the Cheshire Veterans Division Premier Division.

Their squad list this season boasts 9 ex- top-flight footballers, with a collective over 1,800 top-flight appearances.

This star-studded team also boasts 222 top division goals and 325 global caps.

They include one forward, who notched thirty-seven scores in over 100 games for Newcastle United after signing for them for nine million pounds from German league side Freiburg in 2012.

Cisse made his debut for Wythenshawe in their last home match versus reigning champions Collegiate Old Boys and netted every one of the six scores in a six-two victory - featuring a 32-minute opening period hat-trick.

Wythenshawe's team for this campaign also includes former professionals such as England and Liverpool striker Emile Heskey, Hull and Burnley midfielder George Boyd, Everton striker Oumar Niasse, Wigan Athletic full-back Maynor Figueroa, Manchester City duo Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and top-flight championship victors Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

In total, the former Premier League footballers have secured 15 major trophies and moved for combined transfer sums of around £123 million.

Famous Names and Global Players

Ireland started playing for the team in preseason this season through good friend and present Wythenshawe teammate Blake Norton, and the former Republic of Ireland player then invited additional former professionals, who all compete in a weekly small-sided game, to participate.

Former Senegalese striker Oumar Niasse, who scored twelve goals in 65 top-flight matches for Everton and still attends their home games, also made his first appearance versus Collegiate OB - who are based in the city and use an Everton warm-up gear as their strip.

"My mate Stephen Ireland told me 'come and play, it's enjoyable'," commented the striker.

"Then he told me we were facing a team from the city and the surprise I had when I saw them sporting Blue kits - I say this is strange for me!

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

"Those people who turn up and see are happy and to give a moment if they watch us competing there and to ask us queries - it's more like the joy of us getting somewhere 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 bit different but then, I love sprinting and just go forward - I'm not defending that much," he added.

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

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

Unreal Experience

In addition to Cisse's 6 goals on debut, Stephen Ireland has netted eight in 3 games for the side, while Boyd scored five on his debut match and Lescott, a defender by trade, notched a triple in one game up front.

Wythenshawe are leading of the Premier Tier with 3 wins from three and a GD of +19.

One opponent, 38, who features on the wing for Collegiate OB, faced former Wigan defender Figueroa on the weekend - and had to explain his young boy who Emile Heskey was.

Figueroa has played at two World Cups for his country, in addition to featuring in more than 200 Premier League matches.

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

"I think I was a little starstruck playing against Figueroa to be honest.

"Also Heskey got on and he's got over 60 England appearances.

"We competed well for a solid twenty mins but then we had a player dismissed and it was hard.

"Our group literally haven't ceased chatting about it - I was calling my mother and sibling on the way home.

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

"Now we can't wait for the return fixture."

'We'll Still Take the League'

The manager coaches the Collegiate vets side, who secured the Top Tier title the previous campaign, together with his co-manager.

"We scored 1-0 up and had a