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How do you enhance a stellar experienced side who have won back-to-back championships, including a double triumph with thirty victories from 32 games?

Sign a collection of ex- pro players who have competed at the elite tier of club football and international football as you aim for further honors.

One Greater Manchester team boasts an amateur veterans team with nine ex- top-flight footballers in their current lineup.

Two Hundred Twenty-Two Top Division Goals, Three Hundred Twenty-Five International Caps

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

The squad list this campaign includes 9 ex- top-flight footballers, with a combined nearly 1,800 Premier League games.

The elite squad also contains over 220 Premier League goals and over 320 global caps.

They feature Papiss Cisse, who scored thirty-seven scores in 117 appearances for his former club after moving to them for nine million pounds from Bundesliga club Freiburg in January 2012.

Cisse had his first appearance for Wythenshawe in their last home-field game against defending champions Collegiate Old Boys and scored all six scores in a six-two win - including a half-hour opening period hat-trick.

The roster for this campaign also includes former pros such as English and Liverpool forward Emile Heskey, Hull and Burnley FC midfielder George Boyd, Toffees forward Oumar Niasse, Wigan full-back Maynor Figueroa, City duo Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and Premier League title winners Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

In total, the former Premier League players have won 15 significant trophies and transferred for combined transfer fees of approximately £123m.

Well-Known Names and International Stars

Ireland started turning out for the team in pre-season this season through close friend and present Wythenshawe player Blake Norton, and the former Republic of Ireland midfielder then asked other former professionals, who all play in a midweek nine-a-side match, to participate.

Former Senegal striker Niasse, who scored twelve goals in 65 top-flight matches for Everton and even now attends their home games, also had his first appearance against the opposition - who are located in Liverpool and use an Blue warm-up gear as their uniform.

"A friend Stephen told me 'come and play, it's a laugh'," said Niasse.

"After that he informed me we were playing a side from Liverpool and the surprise I had when I noticed them sporting Blue shirts - I thought this is strange for me!

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

"Those spectators who come and watch are happy and to give a day if they see us competing there and to pose us queries - it's really about the pleasure of us getting somewhere we can play, with structure of course."

So great is the squad depth at the club, Niasse had his debut at defender.

"That's a little different but then, I enjoy running and just go inside - I'm not defending that much," he added.

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

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

Unreal Experience

Along with Cisse's six goals on debut, Stephen Ireland has netted eight in three appearances for the side, while Boyd scored 5 on his debut appearance and Lescott, a centre-half by trade, notched a triple in one game up front.

Wythenshawe are leading of the Top Division with three wins from 3 and a GD of plus nineteen.

Paul Barrow, 38, who plays on the wing for Collegiate OB, faced former Latics full-back Figueroa on Sunday - and had to explain his young son who Emile Heskey was.

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

"It was going round like a rumor they had these ex-Premier League players," said Barrow.

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

"Even Heskey got on and he's has over 60 English caps.

"Our side held our own for a good 20 mins but then we had a player sent off and it was hard.

"We literally have not stopped talking about it - I was calling my mum and brother on the journey home.

"The opponents were all dead sound, shaking our hands after the match - it was like facing a bunch of regular fellas.

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

'We'll Still Win the League'

Andy Kirby coaches the Collegiate vets side, who secured the Premier Tier title the previous campaign, together with his co-manager.

"We went 1-0 ahead and had a