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What do you enhance a outstanding veteran team who have claimed back-to-back titles, featuring a league-cup double with 30 victories from 32 matches?

Bring in a collection of former professionals who have played at the elite level of club football and global football as you target additional trophies.

A Manchester team boasts an non-professional vets team with nine former Premier League players in their active lineup.

222 Top Division Goals, 325 Global Caps

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

Their squad list this season features 9 former Premier League players, with a combined 1,801 top-flight matches.

The high-profile roster also includes over 220 Premier League goals and over 320 global caps.

They feature one forward, who notched 37 goals in over 100 appearances for his former club after moving to them for nine million pounds from German league side SC Freiburg in 2012.

Cisse had his debut for Wythenshawe in their most recent home-field game against reigning champions their rivals and netted all six goals in a 6-2 victory - including a 32-minute opening period triple.

Wythenshawe's team for this campaign also features ex- pros such as England and Liverpool forward Emile Heskey, Hull City and Burnley FC midfielder George Boyd, Toffees forward Oumar Niasse, Wigan defender Maynor Figueroa, Manchester City pair Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and Premier League championship victors Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

Collectively, the former top-flight players have secured fifteen major trophies and transferred for combined transfer fees of around £123 million.

Famous Names and International Players

Ireland began turning out for the team in preseason this summer through close friend and present Wythenshawe teammate Blake Norton, and the ex- Republic of Ireland player then invited additional former professionals, who all play in a midweek small-sided game, to join in.

Former Senegal striker Oumar Niasse, who netted 12 scores in sixty-five Premier League games for the Toffees and even now attends their home games, also made his first appearance versus Collegiate OB - who are located in the city and use an Blue warm-up gear as their strip.

"My mate Stephen told me 'join and play, it's enjoyable'," commented Niasse.

"After that he informed me we were facing a team from Liverpool and the shock I had when I saw them sporting Blue kits - I say this is strange for me!

"When you still enjoy the game and you know you can still do it, anywhere you can kick a ball, what are you going to do?

"The fans who come and watch are happy and to make someone's day if they see us competing there and to pose us queries - it's more like the joy of us getting a place we can enjoy football, with organisation of course."

Such is the squad depth at the club, he made his debut at full-back.

"That's a bit unusual but then, I enjoy sprinting and just move forward - I'm not defending that much," he added.

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

"The running is what I'm seeking. It's good fun."

Unreal Scenario

Along with the forward's six goals on his first game, Stephen Ireland has netted eight in 3 appearances for Wythenshawe, while George Boyd hit 5 on his debut appearance and Joleon Lescott, a defender by trade, notched a hat-trick in one game as a striker.

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

One opponent, 38, who plays on the wing for the opposition, faced ex- Latics full-back Figueroa on Sunday - and had to explain his nine-year-old boy who Heskey was.

Figueroa has played at two World Cups for Honduras, in addition to playing in more than two hundred top-flight games.

"The news was spreading like a rumor they had these former top-flight players," remarked Barrow.

"I felt I was a little awestruck playing against him to be honest.

"Also Heskey came on and he's has over 60 English appearances.

"Our side competed well for a solid twenty mins but then we had a man dismissed and it was tough.

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

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

"Now we are eager for the return match."

'We'll Still Win the Title'

The manager coaches the Collegiate vets side, who secured the Top Tier title the previous campaign, together with Paul Maguire.

"We scored 1-0 up and had a