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How can you enhance a stellar veteran squad who have secured back-to-back titles, featuring a league-cup double boasting thirty victories from thirty-two games?

Bring in a raft of ex- pro players who have performed at the top tier of club and global soccer as you aim for more honors.

One Manchester team has an non-professional veterans team with nine former Premier League footballers in their present roster.

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

Wythenshawe Vets Over 35s are situated in south the city and play in the Cheshire-based Vets Division Top Division.

Their roster this campaign boasts 9 former Premier League footballers, with a combined 1,801 Premier League games.

This elite roster also boasts over 220 Premier League scores and 325 global caps.

The squad feature Papiss Cisse, who netted thirty-seven scores in 117 games for his former club after joining them for £9m from German league side SC Freiburg in 2012.

Cisse made his debut for the team in their most recent home match versus defending title holders their rivals and netted every one of the six goals in a six-two win - featuring a 32-minute opening period triple.

The roster for this season also features former pros such as English and Anfield striker Emile Heskey, Hull and Burnley FC winger George Boyd, Everton striker Oumar Niasse, Wigan Athletic full-back Maynor Figueroa, City pair Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and top-flight title winners Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

Collectively, the former Premier League footballers have claimed fifteen major honors and transferred for combined transfer sums of about £123m.

Well-Known Figures and Global Stars

Ireland began playing for the team in preseason this season through close mate and present Wythenshawe player Blake Norton, and the former Irish midfielder then invited additional former professionals, who all play in a weekly nine-a-side game, to join in.

Former Senegal forward Oumar Niasse, who netted 12 scores in 65 Premier League matches for the Toffees and still goes to their home games, also made his first appearance against the opposition - who are located in the city and use an Everton training kit as their strip.

"My friend Stephen said 'come and play, it's enjoyable'," commented the striker.

"After that he informed me we were playing a side from the city and the shock I had when I noticed them sporting Everton kits - I say this is wrong for me!

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

"Those spectators who come and see are happy and to give someone's moment if they watch us playing there and to pose us queries - it's more like the pleasure of us having somewhere we can play, with structure of course."

Such is the squad depth at Wythenshawe, he had his first game at full-back.

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

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

"The running is what I'm looking for. It's enjoyable."

Dreamlike' Feeling

Along with Cisse's 6 goals on his first game, Stephen Ireland has scored eight in three appearances for the side, while Boyd scored five on his debut match and Lescott, a centre-half by trade, scored a hat-trick in one game up front.

The team are leading of the Premier Tier with three victories from three and a GD of +19.

One opponent, 38, who features on the flank for Collegiate OB, faced ex- Latics defender Figueroa on Sunday - and had to tell his young son who Heskey was.

Figueroa has appeared at two World Cups for Honduras, in as well as playing in more than two hundred Premier League matches.

"The news was spreading like wildfire they had all these former top-flight players," remarked the player.

"I think I was a little awestruck facing him to be honest.

"Even Emile [Heskey] got on and he's got over 60 English appearances.

"Our side held our own for a solid twenty mins but then we had a player dismissed and it was hard.

"Our group really have not ceased talking about it - I was calling my mum and brother on the journey home.

"They were all really nice, shaking our hands after the game - it was like playing a bunch of regular fellas.

"Now we are eager for the second fixture."

We Will Still Take the League'

The manager coaches the Collegiate vets side, who won the Premier Division title last season, together with Paul Maguire.

"We went one-nil ahead and had a