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How can you enhance a excellent veteran squad that have won back-to-back titles, featuring a league-cup double with thirty wins from thirty-two games?

Sign a raft of former professionals who have performed at the elite tier of club and global soccer as you target more honors.

One Greater Manchester club boasts an non-professional vets squad with nine former top-flight footballers in their active lineup.

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

The team Vets Over 35s are located in southern the city and play in the Cheshire-based Veterans Division Premier Tier.

The squad list this season includes nine ex- Premier League footballers, with a total over 1,800 Premier League matches.

This star-studded squad also boasts 222 Premier League goals and 325 international caps.

They include one forward, who notched thirty-seven goals in over 100 appearances for Newcastle United after moving to them for nine million pounds from Bundesliga side SC Freiburg in January 2012.

Cisse made his debut for Wythenshawe in their last home-field match against reigning title holders Collegiate Old Boys and scored all six scores in a six-two victory - featuring a half-hour opening period hat-trick.

The squad for this campaign also includes ex- professionals such as England and Liverpool striker Emile Heskey, Hull and Burnley FC midfielder George Boyd, Toffees forward Oumar Niasse, Wigan defender Maynor Figueroa, City pair Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and Premier League title winners Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

Together, the former top-flight players have secured 15 big honors and moved for total transfer sums of around £123 million.

Famous Names and International Stars

Stephen Ireland started turning out for the side during preseason this season through close friend and current Wythenshawe teammate Blake Norton, and the ex- Irish midfielder then asked additional ex-pros, who all compete in a weekly nine-a-side game, to participate.

Ex- Senegalese forward Oumar Niasse, who scored 12 scores in sixty-five Premier League matches for the Toffees and even now attends their matches at Goodison Park, also had his first appearance against the opposition - who are located in the city and use an Everton warm-up gear as their uniform.

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

"Then he informed me we were playing a side from Liverpool and the surprise I had when I saw them wearing Blue kits - I thought this is strange for me!

"When you still enjoy the game and you feel you can still do it, wherever you can play, what are you going to do?

"Those fans who turn up and see are happy and to give someone's moment 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 organisation of course."

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

"It's a little unusual but then, I enjoy sprinting and just move forward - I'm not defending that much," he said.

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

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

'Surreal Scenario

In addition to the forward's six scores on his first game, Ireland has scored 8 in 3 appearances for Wythenshawe, while George Boyd scored 5 on his first match and Lescott, a defender by position, scored a triple in one match as a striker.

The team are top of the Top Division with 3 wins from 3 and a GD of plus nineteen.

Paul Barrow, thirty-eight, who features on the wing for Collegiate OB, faced ex- Wigan defender Maynor Figueroa on the weekend - and had to explain his young son who Heskey was.

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

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

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

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

"Our side competed well for a solid 20 mins but then we had a man sent off and it was hard.

"Our group literally have not stopped talking about it - I was calling my mum and brother on the journey home.

"The opponents were all really nice, shaking our hands after the match - it was like facing a group of normal guys.

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

'We'll Still Take the Title'

The manager manages the Collegiate veterans team, who won the Premier Tier title the previous campaign, along with his co-manager.

"We went one-nil ahead and had a