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What can you improve a excellent veteran team who have secured back-to-back championships, including a league-cup double boasting thirty victories from thirty-two games?

Recruit a collection of ex- pro players who have played at the elite tier of club and global football as you target additional honors.

A Greater Manchester team boasts an amateur vets squad with 9 ex- Premier League players in their active roster.

Two Hundred Twenty-Two Top Division Scores, Three Hundred Twenty-Five Global Appearances

Wythenshawe Veterans Over 35s are located in south the city and play in the Cheshire-based Vets Division Premier Division.

Their lineup this campaign includes nine ex- top-flight players, with a total nearly 1,800 top-flight matches.

The star-studded team also contains 222 Premier League goals and over 320 international appearances.

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

Cisse had his debut for Wythenshawe in their last home-field game versus defending champions Collegiate Old Boys and scored every one of the six goals in a six-two win - including a 32-minute first-half triple.

Wythenshawe's team for this campaign also features ex- professionals such as England and Anfield striker Emile Heskey, Hull City and Burnley midfielder George Boyd, Everton striker Oumar Niasse, Wigan defender Maynor Figueroa, Manchester City pair Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and top-flight championship winners Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

Together, the ex- top-flight players have secured 15 big trophies and moved for combined transfer sums of about £123 million.

Household Names and International Stars

Ireland began turning out for the team in pre-season this summer through good friend and current Wythenshawe player Blake Norton, and the former Irish midfielder then invited additional former professionals, who all compete in a weekly small-sided match, to participate.

Former Senegal striker Niasse, who netted twelve goals in sixty-five top-flight games for Everton and even now goes to their matches at Goodison Park, also made his debut against the opposition - who are located in Liverpool and use an Blue training kit as their strip.

"My friend Stephen told me 'come and have a game, it's enjoyable'," commented the striker.

"After that he told me we were facing a side from Liverpool and the shock I had when I noticed them sporting Blue shirts - I say this is strange for me!

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

"Those fans who come and watch are happy and to give someone's day if they watch us competing there and to pose us queries - it's really about the pleasure of us having a place we can play, with structure of course."

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

"It's a bit different but then, I enjoy running 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 keep attacking.

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

'Surreal Feeling

Along with the forward's six goals on his first game, Stephen Ireland has scored 8 in 3 games for the side, while George Boyd hit 5 on his debut appearance and Lescott, a defender by trade, scored a triple in one game as a striker.

The team are leading of the Top Tier with three victories from three and a GD of +19.

One opponent, thirty-eight, who features on the wing for the opposition, came up against ex- Latics defender Maynor Figueroa on the weekend - and had to explain his young boy who Heskey was.

He has played at 2 global tournaments for his country, in addition to featuring in over 200 top-flight matches.

"The news was going round like a rumor they had these ex-Premier League players," remarked Barrow.

"I felt I was a little awestruck facing him to be honest.

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

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

"Our group literally haven't ceased chatting about it - I was phoning my mum and brother on the way home.

"They were all dead sound, shaking our hands after the match - it was like playing a group of normal guys.

"Now we are eager for the return match."

We Will Still Take the Title'

The manager coaches the opposition vets team, who won the Premier Division championship last season, together with Paul Maguire.

"We went one-nil up and had a