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How can you enhance a excellent veteran team who have secured back-to-back titles, featuring a double triumph boasting thirty wins from thirty-two games?

Sign a group of ex- professionals who have competed at the highest tier of club and global soccer as you target more trophies.

One Manchester club boasts an non-professional veterans squad with nine former Premier League footballers in their present roster.

Two Hundred Twenty-Two Premier League Goals, Three Hundred Twenty-Five Global Appearances

The team Veterans Over 35s are based in south the city and compete in the Cheshire-based Veterans League Premier Division.

Their roster this season boasts 9 ex- Premier League footballers, with a total nearly 1,800 elite matches.

The high-profile squad also boasts 222 top division goals and 325 international appearances.

They feature one forward, who netted thirty-seven goals in 117 games for his former club after moving to them for £9m from Bundesliga club SC Freiburg in 2012.

Cisse had his debut for the team in their last home-field match against defending champions their rivals and scored all six scores in a six-two victory - including a 32-minute first-half triple.

Wythenshawe's team for this season also includes former professionals such as English and Liverpool forward Emile Heskey, Hull City and Burnley FC winger George Boyd, Toffees forward Oumar Niasse, Wigan full-back Maynor Figueroa, Manchester City duo Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and Premier League title winners Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

Together, the ex- top-flight players have won 15 significant honors and transferred for combined transfer fees of approximately £123m.

Famous Names and International Stars

Stephen Ireland started turning out for the side during pre-season this summer through close friend and present Wythenshawe teammate Blake Norton, and the former Republic of Ireland midfielder then invited other ex-pros, who all compete in a weekly nine-a-side match, to participate.

Ex- Senegal striker Niasse, who scored twelve goals in 65 Premier League games for Everton and even now goes to their home games, also had his debut against Collegiate OB - who are located in the city and wear an Everton training kit as their uniform.

"A friend Stephen told me 'come and play, it's good fun'," said Niasse.

"Then he informed me we were facing a side from Liverpool and the shock I had when I noticed them wearing Blue shirts - I say this is wrong for me!

"When you still love football and you feel you can still do it, anywhere you can kick a ball, what are you going to choose?

"The spectators who turn up and watch are pleased and to give a day if they see us competing there and to pose us questions - it's more like the joy of us having somewhere we can play, with structure of course."

So great is the strength in depth at the club, he made his debut at full-back.

"It's a little unusual but then, I love sprinting and just move inside - I'm not staying back that much," he added.

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

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

Dreamlike' Scenario

Along with Cisse's six goals on his first game, Stephen Ireland has scored eight in 3 games for Wythenshawe, while Boyd scored 5 on his debut appearance and Joleon Lescott, a centre-half by trade, scored a triple in one match as a striker.

The team are leading of the Premier Tier with 3 victories from three and a GD of plus nineteen.

Paul Barrow, thirty-eight, who features on the flank for Collegiate OB, faced ex- Latics full-back Maynor Figueroa on Sunday - and had to tell his nine-year-old son who Heskey was.

He has played at 2 World Cups for Honduras, in addition to featuring in over 200 top-flight matches.

"The news was going round like wildfire they had these former top-flight players," remarked the player.

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

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

"Our side held our own for a solid 20 mins but then we had a player dismissed and it was tough.

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

"The opponents were all dead sound, shaking our hands after the game - it was like facing a group of normal fellas.

"Now we are eager for the second fixture."

'We'll Still Win the Title'

The manager coaches the Collegiate veterans team, who secured the Premier Division title the previous campaign, along with Paul Maguire.

"We went 1-0 ahead and had a