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What do you improve a outstanding veteran squad that have secured consecutive titles, including a double triumph with thirty victories from thirty-two games?

Sign a raft of former professionals who have competed at the elite tier of club and international soccer as you pursue additional honors.

A Manchester team has an amateur vets team with 9 ex- top-flight footballers in their present squad.

222 Top Division Scores, Three Hundred Twenty-Five International Caps

The team Vets Over 35s are situated in south Manchester and play in the Cheshire Vets League Premier Division.

The lineup this season includes 9 former top-flight players, with a collective 1,801 elite appearances.

The high-profile squad also includes over 220 top division scores and 325 international appearances.

They feature one forward, who scored thirty-seven goals in over 100 appearances for his former club after signing for them for nine million pounds from German league club SC Freiburg in 2012.

He made his debut for Wythenshawe in their last home game versus defending title holders Collegiate Old Boys and netted every one of the six goals in a six-two win - featuring a half-hour opening period triple.

The squad for this season also includes former professionals such as English and Liverpool striker Emile Heskey, Hull and Burnley FC midfielder George Boyd, Toffees striker Oumar Niasse, Wigan Athletic full-back Maynor Figueroa, City duo Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and Premier League championship winners Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

Together, the former top-flight players have secured fifteen significant trophies and transferred for total transfer sums of approximately £123m.

Famous Names and Global Players

Stephen Ireland began playing for the side during preseason this season through close friend and present Wythenshawe player Blake Norton, and the former Republic of Ireland player then invited other ex-pros, who all compete in a weekly nine-a-side game, to participate.

Former Senegalese striker Oumar Niasse, who scored 12 goals in sixty-five Premier League matches for Everton and even now attends their matches at Goodison Park, also had his first appearance against the opposition - who are based in Liverpool and use an Blue warm-up gear as their uniform.

"A friend Stephen said 'come and have a game, it's enjoyable'," said the striker.

"After that he told me we were playing a team from the city and the shock I had when I noticed them wearing Blue shirts - I say this is wrong for me!

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

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

So great is the strength in depth at Wythenshawe, Niasse had his debut at defender.

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

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

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

Dreamlike' Experience

In addition to Cisse's six goals on his first game, Ireland has netted eight in three games for Wythenshawe, while Boyd scored 5 on his first match and Lescott, a defender by position, scored a hat-trick in one match up front.

Wythenshawe are top of the Top Tier with 3 victories from 3 and a goal difference of +19.

One opponent, thirty-eight, who features on the wing for Collegiate OB, faced former Latics full-back Figueroa on Sunday - and had to tell his young son who Heskey was.

Figueroa has played at two World Cups for his country, in addition to playing in over 200 Premier League games.

"It was going round like a rumor they had all these former top-flight players," remarked the player.

"I think I was a bit starstruck playing against him to be honest.

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

"We competed well for a solid 20 mins but then we had a player dismissed and it was hard.

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

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

"Now we can't wait for the return match."

We Will Still Win the League'

Andy Kirby coaches the Collegiate vets team, who won the Top Division championship the previous campaign, along with his co-manager.

"Our team scored 1-0 ahead and had a