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How can you boost a stellar veteran team that have won back-to-back championships, including a league-cup double boasting 30 victories from 32 games?

Recruit a raft of former pro players who have played at the top level of club football and global football as you pursue additional honors.

A Greater Manchester side has an non-professional veterans team with 9 former top-flight players in their current roster.

Two Hundred Twenty-Two Premier League Scores, Three Hundred Twenty-Five Global Caps

Wythenshawe Vets Over 35s are situated in south the city and compete in the Cheshire Vets Division Premier Division.

The lineup this campaign features 9 ex- Premier League players, with a collective nearly 1,800 Premier League appearances.

This star-studded roster also boasts 222 Premier League scores and over 320 global appearances.

They include Papiss Cisse, who scored thirty-seven scores in 117 appearances for his former club after moving to them for nine million pounds from German league side SC Freiburg in 2012.

Cisse made his debut for Wythenshawe in their most recent home-field game versus defending champions Collegiate Old Boys and netted every one of the six scores in a 6-2 win - including a half-hour opening period hat-trick.

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

Together, the former top-flight footballers have won 15 significant trophies and moved for combined transfer fees of approximately £123m.

Famous Figures and Global Stars

Stephen Ireland started turning out for the side during preseason this season through good mate and current team player Blake Norton, and the ex- Republic of Ireland player then asked other ex-pros, who all compete in a midweek nine-a-side game, to join in.

Ex- Senegal striker Oumar Niasse, who netted 12 scores in 65 top-flight matches for Everton and even now goes to their home games, also had his first appearance against Collegiate OB - who are located in the city and wear an Blue warm-up gear as their uniform.

"A friend Stephen told me 'join and have a game, it's a laugh'," commented Niasse.

"Then he informed me we were facing a side from Liverpool and the shock I had when I noticed them sporting Blue kits - I thought this is wrong for me!

"When you still love the game and you know you can still play, wherever you can kick a ball, what are you going to do?

"Those spectators who come and watch are pleased and to give someone's moment if they see us playing there and to ask us queries - it's more like the pleasure of us having somewhere we can enjoy football, with structure of course."

Such is the strength in depth at the club, he had his debut at defender.

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

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

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

Unreal Experience

Along with Cisse's 6 scores on his first game, Ireland has netted 8 in three appearances for the side, while George Boyd hit 5 on his first match and Joleon 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 goal difference of plus nineteen.

Paul Barrow, 38, who plays on the wing for the opposition, faced ex- Wigan defender Maynor Figueroa on Sunday - and had to explain his nine-year-old boy who Emile Heskey was.

Figueroa has appeared at 2 World Cups for his country, in addition to playing in more than two hundred top-flight matches.

"The news was going round like wildfire they had all these ex-Premier League players," said the player.

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

"Even Heskey got on and he's has over 60 England appearances.

"We competed well for a good 20 minutes but then we had a man sent off and it was tough.

"We really haven't stopped talking about it - I was phoning my mum and brother on the journey home.

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

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

We Will Still Take the League'

The manager coaches the opposition veterans team, who secured the Top Division championship last season, along with his co-manager.

"Our team went 1-0 ahead and had a