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How can you improve a outstanding veteran team that have secured consecutive titles, including a league-cup double boasting thirty wins from 32 games?

Recruit a group of ex- professionals who have played at the elite tier of club and international soccer as you pursue further trophies.

A Manchester side boasts an amateur veterans squad with 9 former top-flight footballers in their current lineup.

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

Wythenshawe Veterans Over 35s are situated in southern Manchester and compete in the Cheshire-based Vets League Premier Division.

The lineup this season features nine ex- Premier League footballers, with a total 1,801 elite matches.

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

The squad include one forward, who scored 37 scores in over 100 appearances for his former club after joining them for nine million pounds from Bundesliga side Freiburg in 2012.

Cisse had his first appearance for the team in their most recent home-field match against defending title holders Collegiate Old Boys and scored every one of the six goals in a 6-2 win - including a half-hour opening period triple.

The squad for this campaign also includes former professionals such as English and Anfield forward Emile Heskey, Hull City and Burnley midfielder George Boyd, Everton striker Oumar Niasse, Wigan Athletic defender Maynor Figueroa, City pair Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and Premier League title winners Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

In total, the ex- top-flight players have secured 15 big honors and transferred for combined transfer fees of around £123 million.

Household Figures and Global Players

Ireland began playing for the side in preseason this season through close friend and present team player Blake Norton, and the ex- Irish player then asked additional former professionals, who all compete in a midweek nine-a-side game, to participate.

Former Senegal forward Niasse, who netted twelve goals in 65 top-flight games for Everton and even now attends their matches at Goodison Park, also made his first appearance against the opposition - who are based in the city and wear an Everton warm-up gear as their uniform.

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

"After that he informed me we were playing a side from Liverpool and the surprise I had when I noticed them wearing Everton shirts - I say this is wrong for me!

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

"The fans who turn up and see are pleased and to make someone's day if they see us competing there and to ask us questions - it's more like the joy of us having a place we can enjoy football, with structure of course."

Such is the squad depth at Wythenshawe, Niasse made his first game at full-back.

"That's a bit different but then, I enjoy sprinting and just move forward - I'm not staying back that much," he said.

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

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

Unreal Scenario

Along with Cisse's 6 goals on his first game, Ireland has scored 8 in three appearances for Wythenshawe, while George Boyd scored five on his debut match and Lescott, a defender by position, notched a triple in one match up front.

The team are leading of the Premier Tier with 3 wins from 3 and a GD of +19.

Paul Barrow, 38, who plays on the wing for Collegiate OB, faced former Wigan full-back Figueroa on the weekend - and had to explain his nine-year-old boy who Emile Heskey was.

Figueroa has played at two global tournaments for Honduras, in as well as playing in over two hundred top-flight matches.

"The news was spreading like wildfire they had these former top-flight players," said Barrow.

"I felt I was a bit awestruck facing him to be honest.

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

"We held our own for a solid twenty mins but then we had a player dismissed and it was tough.

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

"The opponents were all dead sound, shaking our hands after the match - it was like facing a group of regular fellas.

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

'We'll Still Win the League'

Andy Kirby coaches the Collegiate vets side, who won the Premier Tier title the previous campaign, together with his co-manager.

"Our team went one-nil ahead and had a