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How can you boost a outstanding experienced side that have claimed back-to-back championships, featuring a league-cup double boasting 30 victories from thirty-two games?

Sign a raft of ex- pro players who have played at the elite tier of club and global soccer as you pursue additional trophies.

A Manchester side fields an non-professional vets squad with nine former top-flight players in their current lineup.

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

The team Vets Over 35s are located in south the city and compete in the Cheshire Veterans Division Premier Division.

Their lineup this season boasts nine ex- top-flight players, with a collective over 1,800 top-flight matches.

This elite roster also boasts 222 top division scores and 325 international caps.

They include Papiss Cisse, who notched thirty-seven goals in over 100 games for Newcastle United after signing for them for £9m from German league club SC Freiburg in 2012.

Cisse had his first appearance for the team in their most recent home-field match against defending champions Collegiate Old Boys and scored all six goals in a 6-2 victory - including a 32-minute first-half triple.

Wythenshawe's squad for this season also features former professionals such as England and Liverpool striker Emile Heskey, Hull and Burnley winger George Boyd, Everton forward Oumar Niasse, Wigan defender Maynor Figueroa, Manchester City pair Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and Premier League title winners Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

Together, the ex- top-flight players have secured 15 big trophies and moved for combined transfer fees of around £123 million.

Well-Known Names and International Stars

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

Ex- Senegalese striker Niasse, who scored twelve scores in 65 Premier League games for the Toffees and still goes to their matches at Goodison Park, also had his first appearance versus the opposition - who are based in Liverpool and use an Blue training kit as their strip.

"A friend Stephen Ireland said 'join and have a game, it's good fun'," commented the striker.

"After that he told me we were playing a side from Liverpool and the surprise I had when I saw them sporting Blue shirts - I thought this is strange for me!

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

"The people who come and see are pleased and to make someone's moment if they see us playing there and to ask us queries - it's really about the joy of us getting a place we can play, with structure of course."

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

"That's a little unusual but then, I enjoy sprinting and just move inside - I'm not defending that much," he added.

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

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

Unreal Scenario

In addition to Cisse's six scores on his first game, Ireland has netted eight in three appearances for the side, while George Boyd hit 5 on his first match and Lescott, a defender by trade, scored a hat-trick in one game up front.

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

One opponent, 38, who plays on the flank for Collegiate OB, came up against ex- Latics defender Maynor Figueroa on Sunday - and had to tell his nine-year-old son who Heskey was.

Figueroa has played at 2 global tournaments for Honduras, in as well as featuring in more than two hundred top-flight games.

"It was going round like a rumor they had these former top-flight stars," remarked the player.

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

"Also Emile [Heskey] got on and he's has 60-odd English appearances.

"Our side competed well for a good 20 mins but then we had a man dismissed and it was tough.

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

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

"Now we are eager for the second fixture."

'We'll Still Take the League'

Andy Kirby coaches the opposition vets side, who won the Premier Tier title last season, together with his co-manager.

"We went 1-0 ahead and had a