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What do you boost a stellar veteran squad who have claimed back-to-back titles, featuring a double triumph boasting 30 victories from 32 matches?

Bring in a collection of former professionals that have competed at the top tier of club and international soccer as you target additional trophies.

One Manchester club boasts an amateur veterans squad with 9 former top-flight footballers in their current roster.

Two Hundred Twenty-Two Premier League Scores, 325 Global Caps

The team Veterans Over-35s are situated in southern the city and compete in the Cheshire Veterans League Top Division.

Their squad list this season boasts nine former top-flight players, with a total over 1,800 elite games.

This star-studded team also contains over 220 top division goals and over 320 global appearances.

They feature Papiss Cisse, who netted thirty-seven goals in over 100 games for his former club after moving to them for nine million pounds from German league club SC Freiburg in 2012.

Cisse made his debut for Wythenshawe in their last home game against defending champions Collegiate Old Boys and netted all six scores in a 6-2 victory - including a 32-minute opening period hat-trick.

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

Collectively, the former Premier League footballers have won fifteen major honors and moved for combined transfer sums of approximately £123m.

Household Names and Global Stars

Ireland began turning out for the team during pre-season this season through good friend and current team player Blake Norton, and the former Irish midfielder then invited additional ex-pros, who all play in a weekly small-sided game, to participate.

Ex- Senegalese forward Oumar Niasse, who scored 12 scores in 65 Premier League games for the Toffees and even now goes to their matches at Goodison Park, also had his debut against the opposition - who are based in Liverpool and use an Blue warm-up gear as their uniform.

"My friend Stephen Ireland said 'join and have a game, it's good fun'," said Niasse.

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

"If you still love football and you know you can still do it, anywhere you can kick a ball, what are you going to do?

"Those spectators who come and see are happy and to give a moment if they see us playing there and to ask us questions - it's really about the joy of us getting somewhere we can enjoy football, with structure of course."

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

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

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

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

Dreamlike' Feeling

Along with Cisse's six goals on debut, Ireland has scored eight in three appearances for Wythenshawe, while George Boyd hit 5 on his first appearance and Lescott, a centre-half by position, notched a triple in one match up front.

Wythenshawe are top of the Premier Division with 3 victories from three and a GD of plus nineteen.

One opponent, thirty-eight, who plays on the flank for Collegiate OB, faced ex- Latics full-back Figueroa on the weekend - and had to explain his young son who Emile Heskey was.

Figueroa has appeared at two World Cups for Honduras, in addition to playing in more than 200 Premier League matches.

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

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

"Even Heskey came on and he's has 60-odd England appearances.

"We competed well for a solid twenty minutes but then we had a player dismissed and it was tough.

"We really have not stopped chatting about it - I was phoning 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 normal fellas.

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

We Will Still Win the League'

Andy Kirby manages the opposition vets team, who won the Premier Division championship last season, together with his co-manager.

"Our team scored one-nil up and had a