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How can you enhance a stellar experienced team that have won consecutive championships, including a double triumph boasting 30 wins from 32 matches?

Recruit a group of former pro players that have played at the highest tier of club and international football as you aim for additional honors.

A Manchester team has an non-professional veterans team with nine ex- top-flight players in their current squad.

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

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

Their roster this campaign includes 9 former Premier League footballers, with a collective over 1,800 elite games.

The star-studded squad also boasts over 220 Premier League goals and 325 global caps.

The squad feature one forward, who notched thirty-seven goals in 117 appearances for Newcastle United after signing for them for nine million pounds from German league club SC Freiburg in 2012.

Cisse had his first appearance for the team in their most recent home game against defending title holders their rivals and netted every one of the six goals in a 6-2 win - including a 32-minute first-half triple.

The team for this campaign also includes former pros such as English and Anfield forward Emile Heskey, Hull City and Burnley FC winger George Boyd, Everton forward Oumar Niasse, Wigan defender Maynor Figueroa, Manchester City duo Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and top-flight title winners Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

Collectively, the ex- Premier League players have secured 15 major trophies and transferred for total transfer fees of approximately £123 million.

Well-Known Figures and International Players

Stephen Ireland started turning out for the team in pre-season this season through good mate and current team teammate Blake Norton, and the former Irish midfielder then invited other ex-pros, who all compete in a midweek nine-a-side match, to join in.

Former Senegalese striker Niasse, who netted 12 scores in 65 top-flight games for Everton and still goes to their home games, also made his debut versus the opposition - who are located in Liverpool and use an Everton training kit as their strip.

"A friend Stephen said 'come and play, it's a laugh'," said Niasse.

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

"If you still love the game and you feel you can still play, anywhere you can kick a ball, what are you going to choose?

"The people who come and watch are happy and to give someone's day if they watch us competing there and to ask us queries - it's really about the joy of us having a place we can play, with organisation of course."

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

"That's a little different but then, I love 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 running is what I'm looking for. It's enjoyable."

'Surreal Experience

In addition to Cisse's six goals on debut, Ireland has scored eight in three games for the side, while Boyd hit 5 on his debut appearance and Lescott, a defender by position, scored a hat-trick in one match as a striker.

Wythenshawe are top of the Top Division with 3 wins from three and a goal difference of +19.

Paul Barrow, thirty-eight, who features on the flank for Collegiate OB, came up against ex- Latics defender Maynor Figueroa on the weekend - and had to tell his young boy who Emile Heskey was.

He has appeared at 2 global tournaments for Honduras, in addition to playing in more than 200 Premier League games.

"It was spreading like wildfire they had all these former top-flight players," said the player.

"I felt I was a bit awestruck playing against Figueroa to be honest.

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

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

"We literally haven't stopped chatting about it - I was calling my mother and sibling on the way home.

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

"Now we are eager for the second fixture."

We Will Still Take the Title'

The manager manages the opposition veterans team, who secured the Top Tier title the previous campaign, together with Paul Maguire.

"We went one-nil ahead and had a