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How can you boost a stellar veteran side that have won back-to-back titles, featuring a league-cup double with 30 wins from thirty-two games?

Bring in a group of ex- professionals that have played at the elite level of club and global soccer as you target additional trophies.

One Greater Manchester side boasts an amateur veterans squad with 9 former Premier League players in their current roster.

Two Hundred Twenty-Two Top Division Scores, Three Hundred Twenty-Five Global Caps

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

Their squad list this campaign features nine ex- Premier League footballers, with a total over 1,800 top-flight matches.

The high-profile team also contains over 220 Premier League scores and over 320 global caps.

The squad include one forward, who scored 37 goals in over 100 games for Newcastle United after joining them for £9m from Bundesliga club Freiburg in January 2012.

Cisse made his debut for the team in their most recent home-field match versus defending title holders Collegiate Old Boys and scored all six scores in a 6-2 win - including a half-hour opening period triple.

Wythenshawe's team for this season also features ex- professionals such as England and Liverpool striker Emile Heskey, Hull City and Burnley FC midfielder George Boyd, Toffees 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.

Together, the former Premier League players have secured fifteen significant honors and moved for total transfer fees of approximately £123m.

Well-Known Figures and Global Stars

Ireland started playing for the team in preseason this season through good friend and present team player Blake Norton, and the former Republic of Ireland midfielder then invited other ex-pros, who all play in a midweek small-sided game, to participate.

Former Senegal forward Oumar Niasse, who netted 12 scores in 65 top-flight matches for the Toffees and still attends their matches at Goodison Park, also made his debut versus the opposition - who are based in the city and use an Blue training kit as their uniform.

"A friend Stephen Ireland said 'come and play, it's a laugh'," said the striker.

"After that he informed me we were facing a team from the city and the surprise I had when I noticed them wearing Blue shirts - I thought this is strange for me!

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

"Those people who turn up and see 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 somewhere we can enjoy football, with organisation of course."

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

"It's a bit unusual but then, I love sprinting and just go inside - I'm not staying back that much," he said.

"I tell 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 enjoyable."

Unreal Scenario

In addition to the forward's six goals on his first game, Stephen Ireland has scored eight in three appearances for Wythenshawe, while George Boyd scored five on his debut match and Joleon Lescott, a defender by position, notched a hat-trick in one game up front.

The team are leading of the Premier Division with 3 wins from three and a GD of +19.

Paul Barrow, 38, who plays on the flank for Collegiate OB, came up against former Latics full-back Maynor Figueroa on Sunday - and had to tell his young boy who Heskey was.

Figueroa has appeared at two World Cups for Honduras, in as well as featuring in over two hundred Premier League games.

"It was spreading like wildfire they had all these former top-flight stars," said Barrow.

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

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

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

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

"The opponents were all really nice, shaking our hands after the match - it was like playing a bunch of regular guys.

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

We Will Still Take the League'

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

"Our team went one-nil ahead and had a