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How do you boost a excellent experienced squad who have claimed consecutive championships, featuring a double triumph boasting thirty wins from thirty-two games?

Sign a group of former professionals that have performed at the elite level of club football and international football as you target more trophies.

A Manchester side fields an non-professional veterans team with 9 former Premier League footballers in their current lineup.

Two Hundred Twenty-Two Top Division Goals, Three Hundred Twenty-Five International Caps

The team Vets Over 35s are located in southern the city and play in the Cheshire-based Veterans Division Premier Tier.

The squad list this season boasts 9 former top-flight footballers, with a collective 1,801 elite appearances.

This high-profile squad also boasts 222 top division scores and over 320 global caps.

The squad include one forward, who notched 37 scores in 117 games for his former club after joining them for nine million pounds from Bundesliga side SC Freiburg in 2012.

Cisse had his debut for Wythenshawe in their most recent home match against reigning champions their rivals and netted every one of the six goals in a six-two win - including a half-hour opening period hat-trick.

The roster for this campaign also features former professionals such as England and Anfield forward Emile Heskey, Hull City and Burnley FC winger George Boyd, Toffees striker 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 ex- Premier League players have secured 15 major honors and transferred for total transfer fees of approximately £123m.

Famous Figures and Global Stars

Stephen Ireland started playing for the team during pre-season this summer through good mate and current Wythenshawe player Blake Norton, and the ex- Republic of Ireland midfielder then asked additional ex-pros, who all play in a weekly small-sided game, to participate.

Former Senegal forward Niasse, who scored 12 goals in 65 top-flight matches for Everton and even now attends their matches at Goodison Park, also had his debut versus Collegiate OB - who are located in Liverpool and wear an Everton training kit as their strip.

"My mate Stephen Ireland told me 'join and have a game, it's enjoyable'," said the striker.

"After that he informed me we were playing a team from the city and the shock I had when I noticed them wearing Blue kits - I thought this is wrong for me!

"When you still enjoy football and you know you can still play, wherever you can kick a ball, what are you going to choose?

"Those people who turn up and watch are happy and to give someone's day if they see us playing there and to pose us queries - it's really about the joy of us having a place we can enjoy football, with organisation of course."

So great is the bench strength at the club, Niasse made his debut at defender.

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

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

"That movement is what I'm looking for. It's enjoyable."

'Surreal Experience

Along with the forward's six scores on his first game, Stephen Ireland has scored eight in three games for Wythenshawe, while George Boyd scored five on his first match and Joleon Lescott, a centre-half by position, scored a hat-trick in one game as a striker.

The team are leading of the Top Division with three wins from 3 and a goal difference of +19.

One opponent, thirty-eight, who features on the wing for the opposition, faced former Latics defender Figueroa on the weekend - and had to tell his young son who Heskey was.

Figueroa has played at two World Cups for Honduras, in addition to playing in over 200 Premier League games.

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

"I felt I was a bit starstruck playing against him to be honest.

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

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

"Our group really have not stopped chatting about it - I was phoning my mum and sibling on the way home.

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

"Now we are eager for the return fixture."

We Will Still Win the League'

The manager coaches the opposition vets side, who secured the Premier Tier title the previous campaign, together with Paul Maguire.

"We went one-nil up and had a