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What can you boost a excellent veteran team that have claimed consecutive titles, including a league-cup double with thirty victories from thirty-two matches?

Sign a group of ex- pro players that have competed at the highest level of club and global soccer as you aim for additional honors.

A Manchester side boasts an non-professional veterans team with nine ex- Premier League players in their present lineup.

222 Premier League Goals, Three Hundred Twenty-Five International Appearances

Wythenshawe Veterans Over 35s are based in south the city and compete in the Cheshire Veterans Division Top Division.

Their squad list this campaign boasts 9 ex- top-flight footballers, with a total 1,801 elite appearances.

The elite roster also boasts 222 Premier League scores and over 320 global caps.

The squad feature Papiss Cisse, who netted 37 goals in over 100 games for his former club after signing for them for £9m from German league club SC Freiburg in January 2012.

He had his debut for Wythenshawe in their most recent home-field game versus defending title holders their rivals and scored every one of the six goals in a six-two victory - featuring a half-hour opening period hat-trick.

The squad for this season also features former professionals such as English and Anfield striker Emile Heskey, Hull and Burnley FC midfielder George Boyd, Everton striker Oumar Niasse, Wigan defender Maynor Figueroa, Manchester City pair Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and top-flight championship winners Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

In total, the ex- top-flight footballers have secured fifteen big honors and moved for total transfer sums of approximately £123 million.

Famous Names and International Players

Stephen Ireland began playing for the side during preseason this season through good friend and present team player Blake Norton, and the former Republic of Ireland midfielder then invited additional former professionals, who all play in a midweek nine-a-side game, to join in.

Former Senegal striker Oumar Niasse, who netted 12 scores in sixty-five Premier League matches for the Toffees and still goes to their matches at Goodison Park, also had his first appearance versus the opposition - who are located in the city and wear an Everton warm-up gear as their uniform.

"A friend Stephen Ireland said 'join and have a game, it's good fun'," commented the striker.

"Then he told me we were facing a team from Liverpool and the shock I had when I saw them wearing Everton shirts - I thought this is strange for me!

"If you still love football and you feel you can still play, anywhere you can play, what are you going to choose?

"Those people who come and see are pleased and to give a day if they watch us playing there and to ask us queries - it's really about the joy of us getting somewhere we can play, with organisation of course."

Such is the strength in depth at Wythenshawe, he made his first game at full-back.

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

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

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

'Surreal Experience

In addition to the forward's six scores on debut, Stephen Ireland has scored 8 in three games for the side, while George Boyd hit 5 on his debut appearance and Joleon Lescott, a defender by trade, notched a triple in one game up front.

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

One opponent, thirty-eight, who plays on the flank for Collegiate OB, faced ex- Wigan full-back Maynor Figueroa on Sunday - and had to explain his young boy who Heskey was.

Figueroa has appeared at two global tournaments for his country, in as well as playing in more than two hundred top-flight matches.

"It was going round like wildfire they had these ex-Premier League stars," said the player.

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

"Also Emile [Heskey] got on and he's got over 60 English caps.

"We competed well for a solid twenty mins but then we had a man sent off and it was tough.

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

"They were all dead sound, shaking our hands after the game - it was like facing a group of normal fellas.

"Now we are eager for the return match."

We Will Still Take the League'

The manager manages the opposition veterans team, who won the Premier Division title last season, along with his co-manager.

"We scored 1-0 ahead and had a