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How do you boost a excellent experienced side who have secured back-to-back championships, featuring a double triumph with thirty wins from 32 games?

Recruit a raft of former pro players who have played at the highest tier of club football and global soccer as you pursue further silverware.

One Manchester team has an non-professional vets squad with 9 former Premier League players in their active squad.

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

The team Veterans Over 35s are situated in southern the city and compete in the Cheshire Veterans Division Premier Tier.

Their lineup this season features nine former Premier League footballers, with a combined 1,801 elite matches.

The high-profile team also contains 222 top division goals and 325 international caps.

They feature Papiss Cisse, who scored 37 scores in over 100 games for Newcastle United after joining them for nine million pounds from Bundesliga side Freiburg in 2012.

He had his debut for Wythenshawe in their most recent home-field game versus reigning title holders Collegiate Old Boys and scored every one of the six scores in a six-two win - featuring a half-hour first-half triple.

The squad for this season also includes former pros such as English and Anfield forward Emile Heskey, Hull City and Burnley winger George Boyd, Toffees striker Oumar Niasse, Wigan full-back Maynor Figueroa, Manchester City duo Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and Premier League championship victors Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

Together, the former top-flight players have won 15 big honors and transferred for total transfer fees of around £123 million.

Household Figures and International Players

Stephen Ireland began playing for the side during pre-season this summer through close mate and current team teammate Blake Norton, and the ex- Irish midfielder then asked other ex-pros, who all compete in a weekly nine-a-side game, to participate.

Ex- Senegalese forward Niasse, who scored twelve scores in 65 Premier League games for Everton and even now goes to their home games, also made his debut against Collegiate OB - who are located in the city and use an Everton training kit as their uniform.

"My friend Stephen said 'come and have a game, it's good fun'," commented Niasse.

"Then he told me we were playing a team from the city and the shock I had when I noticed them wearing Blue kits - I say this is strange for me!

"If you still enjoy the game and you feel you can still do it, anywhere you can play, what are you going to do?

"The fans who turn up and watch are pleased and to make someone's day if they watch us competing there and to ask us queries - it's really about the joy of us getting a place we can enjoy football, with organisation 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 enjoy 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 looking for. It's good fun."

Unreal Feeling

Along with Cisse's six scores on his first game, Ireland has scored 8 in three games for the side, while George Boyd hit 5 on his first match and Joleon Lescott, a defender by position, notched a hat-trick in one game as a striker.

The team are top of the Top Division with 3 wins from three and a GD of +19.

One opponent, 38, who features on the wing for the opposition, came up against former Wigan full-back Figueroa on the weekend - and had to explain his nine-year-old son who Heskey was.

Figueroa has played at 2 World Cups for Honduras, in as well as playing in more than 200 top-flight matches.

"It was going round like wildfire they had all these former top-flight stars," said the player.

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

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

"We held our own for a good 20 mins but then we had a player sent off and it was tough.

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

"The opponents were all really nice, shaking our hands after the game - it was like facing a bunch of normal fellas.

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

'We'll Still Take the League'

The manager coaches the Collegiate veterans team, who secured the Premier Tier title the previous campaign, along with his co-manager.

"We went 1-0 ahead and had a