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How do you improve a stellar experienced squad that have secured consecutive titles, including a double triumph with 30 victories from thirty-two games?

Sign a group of former pro players that have played at the elite tier of club and international soccer as you aim for additional trophies.

A Greater Manchester side boasts an amateur veterans squad with 9 ex- Premier League footballers in their present roster.

222 Top Division Goals, 325 International Caps

The team Veterans Over 35s are situated in southern the city and play in the Cheshire Vets Division Top Tier.

The squad list this campaign boasts 9 ex- top-flight footballers, with a combined over 1,800 elite games.

The high-profile squad also contains 222 top division goals and over 320 international appearances.

They include Papiss Cisse, who notched 37 goals in over 100 games for his former club after joining them for £9m from Bundesliga side Freiburg in January 2012.

He had his debut for the team in their last home-field match versus defending champions Collegiate Old Boys and netted all six scores in a 6-2 victory - featuring a half-hour opening period triple.

The roster for this season also features ex- professionals such as English and Liverpool striker Emile Heskey, Hull and Burnley winger George Boyd, Toffees 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.

Together, the former Premier League footballers have secured fifteen significant trophies and moved for total transfer fees of approximately £123 million.

Household Names and Global Stars

Ireland began playing for the team in pre-season this season through close mate and present Wythenshawe teammate Blake Norton, and the ex- Irish midfielder then asked additional ex-pros, who all play in a weekly nine-a-side game, to join in.

Ex- Senegalese forward Niasse, who netted twelve scores in 65 Premier League games for Everton and even now attends their home games, also had his first appearance against the opposition - who are based in the city and use an Blue training kit as their strip.

"A friend Stephen Ireland said 'join and have a game, it's enjoyable'," commented Niasse.

"Then he informed me we were facing a team from Liverpool and the shock I had when I noticed them sporting Blue kits - I thought this is strange for me!

"If you still love the game and you know you can still play, wherever you can kick a ball, what are you going to do?

"Those people who come and watch are happy and to make a moment if they see us competing there and to pose us questions - it's more like the joy of us getting somewhere we can play, with structure of course."

So great is the squad depth at the club, Niasse made his first game at defender.

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

"I warn my defender 'I'm not staying' and that I'm just going to keep attacking.

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

'Surreal Scenario

Along with the forward's 6 scores on his first game, Ireland has scored 8 in 3 games for Wythenshawe, while Boyd hit 5 on his debut match and Lescott, a defender by position, scored a hat-trick in one match up front.

The team are leading of the Top Tier with 3 wins from 3 and a GD of +19.

Paul Barrow, 38, who features on the wing for Collegiate OB, faced ex- Latics defender Figueroa on the weekend - and had to explain his nine-year-old boy who Heskey was.

He has played at 2 World Cups for Honduras, in as well as featuring in over two hundred top-flight matches.

"It was going round like a rumor they had all these ex-Premier League players," said the player.

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

"Even Heskey got on and he's got over 60 England appearances.

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

"Our group really haven't stopped chatting about it - I was phoning my mum and sibling on the journey home.

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

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

We Will Still Take the League'

Andy Kirby manages the opposition vets team, who won the Top Tier title the previous campaign, together with his co-manager.

"We went 1-0 up and had a