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How can you boost a outstanding veteran team who have claimed back-to-back championships, including a league-cup double boasting thirty victories from 32 matches?

Sign a collection of former professionals who have competed at the top tier of club football and global soccer as you aim for additional trophies.

A Manchester side fields an amateur veterans team with 9 ex- top-flight players in their present roster.

Two Hundred Twenty-Two Premier League Scores, 325 International Appearances

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

Their lineup this season features 9 former top-flight players, with a total over 1,800 elite games.

The elite roster also contains over 220 top division goals and 325 international appearances.

They feature Papiss Cisse, who netted thirty-seven scores in over 100 games for his former club after signing for them for £9m from Bundesliga club Freiburg in January 2012.

He made his debut for the team in their most recent home-field match versus defending title holders their rivals and scored all six goals in a 6-2 victory - including a half-hour first-half hat-trick.

Wythenshawe's team for this campaign also features ex- pros such as England and Liverpool striker Emile Heskey, Hull and Burnley midfielder George Boyd, Toffees forward Oumar Niasse, Wigan defender Maynor Figueroa, City duo Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and top-flight title victors Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

In total, the former Premier League footballers have secured 15 big trophies and transferred for combined transfer fees of about £123 million.

Household Names and International Players

Stephen Ireland began playing for the side during pre-season this season through good mate and present team player Blake Norton, and the former Republic of Ireland player then invited other ex-pros, who all play in a weekly nine-a-side game, to participate.

Ex- Senegal striker Oumar Niasse, who scored twelve goals in 65 Premier League matches for Everton and even now goes to their matches at Goodison Park, also had his first appearance versus the opposition - who are located in Liverpool and wear an Everton training kit as their strip.

"My mate Stephen Ireland said 'come and have a game, it's a laugh'," said Niasse.

"After that he informed me we were facing a team from Liverpool and the shock I had when I saw them sporting Everton kits - I say this is strange for me!

"If you still love the game and you know you can still do it, anywhere you can play, what are you going to choose?

"Those people who turn up and watch are happy and to make a moment if they see us playing there and to ask us questions - it's really about the pleasure of us getting a place we can play, with structure of course."

Such is the bench strength at the club, Niasse made his first game at defender.

"It's a bit unusual but then, I love running 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 after. It's good fun."

'Surreal Scenario

In addition to the forward's six goals on debut, Ireland has scored 8 in three appearances for Wythenshawe, while Boyd hit 5 on his debut match and Joleon Lescott, a defender by position, notched a triple in one match up front.

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

One opponent, 38, who plays on the wing for Collegiate OB, faced former Wigan defender Maynor Figueroa on the weekend - and had to tell his young son who Emile Heskey was.

He has appeared at two global tournaments for his country, in addition to featuring in over 200 top-flight games.

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

"I felt I was a bit starstruck facing Figueroa to be honest.

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

"Our side competed well for a good twenty mins but then we had a player sent off and it was tough.

"Our group really haven't ceased chatting about it - I was phoning my mother and brother on the journey home.

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

"Now we are eager for the return match."

'We'll Still Take the League'

The manager manages the opposition veterans side, who won the Premier Division title the previous campaign, along with Paul Maguire.

"We went one-nil up and had a