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How can you enhance a stellar veteran side that have secured back-to-back championships, featuring a league-cup double boasting thirty wins from thirty-two matches?

Bring in a raft of former professionals that have competed at the top level of club football and global soccer as you target more trophies.

A Greater Manchester side boasts an non-professional veterans squad with nine former Premier League players in their present lineup.

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

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

The squad list this campaign features nine ex- Premier League players, with a total over 1,800 Premier League matches.

This elite team also boasts 222 Premier League goals and over 320 global appearances.

They include one forward, who notched thirty-seven goals in 117 games for his former club after moving to them for £9m from Bundesliga side SC Freiburg in 2012.

Cisse made his debut for Wythenshawe in their most recent home-field game versus defending champions their rivals and netted all six scores in a 6-2 victory - including a half-hour first-half triple.

Wythenshawe's squad for this campaign also includes former pros such as English and Anfield forward Emile Heskey, Hull City and Burnley FC winger George Boyd, Toffees forward Oumar Niasse, Wigan Athletic defender Maynor Figueroa, City pair Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and top-flight title winners Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

Collectively, the ex- Premier League players have won fifteen significant trophies and moved for total transfer fees of around £123m.

Famous Names and Global Stars

Ireland began playing for the team during preseason this season through good mate and present team teammate Blake Norton, and the former Republic of Ireland midfielder then invited additional ex-pros, who all play in a midweek nine-a-side match, to join in.

Former Senegalese forward Niasse, who netted twelve scores in 65 top-flight games for Everton and still attends their matches at Goodison Park, also made his first appearance against Collegiate OB - who are based in the city and use an Blue warm-up gear as their uniform.

"My mate Stephen told me 'join and have a game, it's enjoyable'," said the striker.

"Then he told me we were playing a side from Liverpool and the shock I had when I noticed them wearing Blue kits - I say this is strange for me!

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

"The spectators who come and see are pleased and to make a day if they watch us competing there and to pose us queries - it's more like the pleasure of us getting a place we can play, with structure of course."

So great is the squad depth at the club, he had his first game at defender.

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

"I warn my defender 'I'm not hanging back' and that I'm just going to continue running.

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

Dreamlike' Feeling

In addition to Cisse's 6 goals on debut, Ireland has scored eight in 3 games for Wythenshawe, while Boyd hit 5 on his debut appearance and Joleon Lescott, a defender by trade, notched a triple in one match as a striker.

Wythenshawe are leading of the Top Division with 3 victories from three and a goal difference of plus nineteen.

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

Figueroa has played at two global tournaments for Honduras, in addition to featuring in over two hundred Premier League matches.

"The news was spreading like a rumor they had all these former top-flight players," said the player.

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

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

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

"We really haven't ceased chatting about it - I was calling my mum and sibling on the journey home.

"They were all friendly, 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 Take the Title'

Andy Kirby manages the opposition veterans team, who secured the Premier Tier championship the previous campaign, together with Paul Maguire.

"Our team went 1-0 up and had a