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What can you enhance a excellent veteran team who have secured back-to-back titles, including a double triumph with thirty victories from thirty-two matches?

Sign a raft of former professionals who have competed at the top level of club football and global soccer as you target more honors.

One Manchester side fields an amateur veterans squad with nine former top-flight footballers in their current lineup.

Two Hundred Twenty-Two Top Division Goals, Three Hundred Twenty-Five International Appearances

The team Vets Over-35s are based in south the city and compete in the Cheshire Vets Division Top Tier.

Their roster this campaign features nine former top-flight players, with a combined nearly 1,800 top-flight matches.

This elite team also includes over 220 top division scores and over 320 global appearances.

They include one forward, who netted thirty-seven goals in over 100 appearances for Newcastle United after joining them for £9m from Bundesliga club Freiburg in 2012.

Cisse had his first appearance for Wythenshawe in their most recent home match versus defending title holders Collegiate Old Boys and netted all six scores in a 6-2 victory - featuring a half-hour opening period hat-trick.

The squad for this campaign also features former pros such as England and Liverpool striker Emile Heskey, Hull City and Burnley midfielder George Boyd, Everton forward Oumar Niasse, Wigan full-back Maynor Figueroa, City pair Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and Premier League title victors Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

Collectively, the ex- top-flight footballers have won 15 big trophies and transferred for combined transfer fees of approximately £123 million.

Well-Known Names and International Players

Ireland began turning out for the side during pre-season this season through close friend and present Wythenshawe player Blake Norton, and the former Republic of Ireland player then asked other ex-pros, who all compete in a weekly nine-a-side game, to join in.

Ex- Senegalese forward Oumar Niasse, who scored 12 scores in sixty-five top-flight games for Everton and still attends their matches at Goodison Park, also made his debut versus Collegiate OB - who are based in Liverpool and wear an Everton training kit as their strip.

"My mate Stephen Ireland said 'join and play, it's enjoyable'," said Niasse.

"Then he informed me we were playing a side from the city and the shock I had when I noticed them sporting Blue shirts - I say this is strange for me!

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

"The spectators who turn up and watch are pleased and to make someone's day if they watch us competing there and to ask us questions - it's more like the pleasure of us getting a place we can play, with structure of course."

Such is the strength in depth at Wythenshawe, he made his debut at defender.

"That's a little different but then, I enjoy sprinting and just go inside - I'm not defending that much," he added.

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

"That running is what I'm seeking. It's good fun."

'Surreal Scenario

In addition to the forward's 6 goals on debut, Stephen Ireland has scored 8 in three appearances for the side, while George Boyd scored 5 on his first appearance and Joleon Lescott, a centre-half by position, notched a triple in one match up front.

Wythenshawe are top of the Top Tier with three victories from three and a goal difference of plus nineteen.

One opponent, 38, who plays on the wing for the opposition, came up against former Wigan full-back Maynor Figueroa on the weekend - and had to tell his young boy who Heskey was.

Figueroa has played at 2 global tournaments for his country, in as well as playing in more than 200 top-flight matches.

"The news was going round like a rumor they had all these former top-flight stars," said the player.

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

"Even Heskey came on and he's has over 60 English caps.

"We held our own for a solid 20 minutes but then we had a player sent off and it was hard.

"Our group literally have not ceased talking about it - I was phoning my mother and brother on the way home.

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

"Now we are eager for the second match."

We Will Still Take the Title'

The manager manages the Collegiate veterans side, who secured the Premier Division title the previous campaign, together with Paul Maguire.

"We went 1-0 ahead and had a