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How can you enhance a stellar experienced squad that have claimed back-to-back titles, featuring a double triumph boasting thirty victories from thirty-two games?

Sign a collection of former pro players who have performed at the highest tier of club and global soccer as you target additional honors.

One Greater Manchester team boasts an non-professional vets team with 9 ex- top-flight footballers in their present roster.

222 Premier League Goals, Three Hundred Twenty-Five International Appearances

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

The roster this campaign boasts nine ex- Premier League footballers, with a combined 1,801 top-flight games.

This high-profile squad also boasts 222 Premier League scores and over 320 international caps.

They include Papiss Cisse, who notched thirty-seven goals in 117 appearances for his former club after joining them for £9m from German league club SC Freiburg in 2012.

Cisse had his debut for Wythenshawe in their last home game versus defending champions their rivals and scored every one of the six scores in a 6-2 victory - featuring a half-hour first-half hat-trick.

The team for this campaign also features former pros such as England and Anfield striker Emile Heskey, Hull and Burnley winger George Boyd, Toffees striker Oumar Niasse, Wigan full-back Maynor Figueroa, Manchester City duo Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and Premier League championship winners Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

Collectively, the former Premier League players have claimed fifteen major honors and transferred for total transfer sums of approximately £123m.

Well-Known Names and International Players

Stephen Ireland began playing for the side in preseason this season through good mate and present Wythenshawe teammate Blake Norton, and the ex- Irish midfielder then invited additional ex-pros, who all play in a midweek nine-a-side match, to participate.

Former Senegal forward Oumar Niasse, who scored 12 goals in 65 top-flight matches for Everton and even now attends their matches at Goodison Park, also made his debut versus the opposition - who are based in Liverpool and use an Everton warm-up gear as their strip.

"A friend Stephen Ireland said 'join and play, it's good fun'," commented Niasse.

"Then he informed me we were playing a team from the city and the shock I had when I saw them wearing Everton kits - I thought this is strange for me!

"If you still enjoy football and you know you can still play, wherever you can play, what are you going to choose?

"Those fans who come and watch are pleased and to make a moment if they watch us playing there and to ask us queries - it's more like the pleasure of us having somewhere we can play, with organisation of course."

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

"It's a bit different 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.

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

'Surreal Experience

In addition to the forward's six scores on debut, Stephen Ireland has netted 8 in 3 appearances for the side, while George Boyd hit 5 on his first match and Lescott, a defender by position, notched a hat-trick in one game up front.

The team are top of the Premier Tier with 3 victories from three and a goal difference of plus nineteen.

Paul Barrow, 38, who plays on the wing for the opposition, came up against ex- Wigan full-back Maynor Figueroa on the weekend - and had to explain his young boy who Heskey was.

He has played at 2 global tournaments for Honduras, in as well as featuring in over two hundred top-flight matches.

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

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

"Even Emile [Heskey] came on and he's has 60-odd England caps.

"Our side competed well for a good 20 mins but then we had a player dismissed and it was tough.

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

"The opponents 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 second fixture."

'We'll Still Take the Title'

Andy Kirby manages the opposition vets side, who secured the Premier Tier championship last season, together with Paul Maguire.

"We went 1-0 ahead and had a