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How do you enhance a stellar veteran team that have claimed back-to-back championships, featuring a league-cup double boasting 30 victories from thirty-two matches?

Sign a collection of ex- pro players that have played at the elite tier of club and global soccer as you pursue additional trophies.

One Manchester side fields an non-professional veterans squad with nine ex- top-flight players in their present squad.

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

Wythenshawe Vets Over 35s are located in southern the city and compete in the Cheshire-based Veterans League Premier Tier.

Their roster this season boasts nine ex- top-flight footballers, with a collective nearly 1,800 top-flight appearances.

The high-profile team also boasts 222 top division goals and over 320 global caps.

The squad include one forward, who scored 37 goals in over 100 appearances for his former club after moving to them for nine million pounds from Bundesliga side Freiburg in January 2012.

Cisse made his debut for the team in their most recent home match versus defending champions their rivals and scored all six scores in a 6-2 win - including a 32-minute opening period triple.

The team for this campaign also features ex- pros such as English and Anfield forward Emile Heskey, Hull City and Burnley winger George Boyd, Everton forward Oumar Niasse, Wigan Athletic full-back Maynor Figueroa, Manchester City duo Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and top-flight title victors Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

Collectively, the former Premier League players have won 15 big honors and moved for combined transfer sums of approximately £123 million.

Well-Known Figures and Global Stars

Ireland began turning out for the side during preseason this summer through close friend and present team teammate Blake Norton, and the former Republic of Ireland player then asked other former professionals, who all compete in a midweek nine-a-side game, to join in.

Former Senegalese striker Niasse, who scored twelve scores in sixty-five Premier League games for the Toffees and still attends their matches at Goodison Park, also had his debut against the opposition - who are based in the city and use an Everton training kit as their strip.

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

"Then he informed me we were facing a team from Liverpool and the surprise I had when I noticed them wearing Everton kits - I thought this is wrong for me!

"If you still enjoy the game and you feel you can still do it, wherever you can kick a ball, what are you going to choose?

"The spectators who come and watch are pleased and to make someone's moment if they watch us competing there and to pose us queries - it's really about the joy of us having somewhere we can play, with organisation of course."

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

"That's a bit different but then, I enjoy sprinting and just move forward - I'm not staying back that much," he added.

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

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

Dreamlike' Experience

Along with Cisse's six goals on his first game, Ireland has netted 8 in three appearances for the side, while George Boyd scored five on his debut appearance and Lescott, a defender by position, scored a triple in one match up front.

Wythenshawe are leading of the Top Tier with three victories from 3 and a goal difference of plus nineteen.

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

Figueroa has played at two World Cups for Honduras, in as well as playing in over 200 top-flight games.

"It was spreading like a rumor they had all these former top-flight players," remarked the player.

"I think I was a bit starstruck facing him to be honest.

"Also Heskey got on and he's got 60-odd England caps.

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

"Our group literally have not ceased chatting about it - I was phoning my mum and sibling on the way home.

"They were all friendly, shaking our hands after the match - it was like facing a bunch of normal fellas.

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

'We'll Still Win the Title'

Andy Kirby coaches the opposition vets team, who secured the Top Tier title last season, together with his co-manager.

"Our team went 1-0 ahead and had a