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How do you enhance a excellent experienced squad that have claimed consecutive championships, including a double triumph boasting thirty wins from thirty-two games?

Sign a collection of former pro players who have competed at the elite tier of club football and international soccer as you target additional trophies.

A Manchester side fields an amateur veterans team with nine former top-flight footballers in their present squad.

222 Top Division Scores, Three Hundred Twenty-Five Global Caps

Wythenshawe Veterans Over 35s are situated in southern Manchester and play in the Cheshire-based Veterans Division Top Tier.

Their roster this campaign features 9 ex- Premier League footballers, with a total over 1,800 elite matches.

The high-profile squad also boasts 222 Premier League scores and 325 international caps.

The squad feature one forward, who netted 37 scores in 117 games for his former club after joining them for £9m from German league side Freiburg in 2012.

Cisse made his first appearance for Wythenshawe in their most recent home-field game versus reigning champions their rivals and netted every one of the six scores in a 6-2 victory - including a 32-minute opening period hat-trick.

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

Together, the ex- top-flight footballers have won fifteen big trophies and transferred for total transfer sums of approximately £123m.

Famous Names and Global Players

Ireland started turning out for the side in preseason this summer through close friend and present Wythenshawe player Blake Norton, and the ex- Republic of Ireland player then invited other former professionals, who all compete in a weekly nine-a-side match, to participate.

Ex- Senegal striker Niasse, who netted twelve goals in 65 top-flight matches for the Toffees and still goes to their home games, also had his first appearance against Collegiate OB - who are located in Liverpool and wear an Blue training kit as their uniform.

"My friend Stephen told me 'join and have a game, it's a laugh'," said Niasse.

"After that he told me we were facing a side from Liverpool and the surprise I had when I noticed them sporting Blue shirts - I say this is wrong for me!

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

"Those spectators who come and see are pleased and to make someone's moment if they watch us playing there and to pose us queries - it's really about the joy of us getting somewhere we can play, with structure of course."

Such is the strength in depth at Wythenshawe, Niasse had his first game at full-back.

"It's a little different but then, I enjoy sprinting and just go forward - I'm not defending that much," he said.

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

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

Unreal Feeling

Along with the forward's six goals on debut, Ireland has netted eight in three appearances for Wythenshawe, while George Boyd scored 5 on his first match and Lescott, a defender by trade, scored a hat-trick in one match as a striker.

The team are leading of the Premier Division with three wins from 3 and a GD of plus nineteen.

One opponent, thirty-eight, who plays on the wing for the opposition, faced former Latics full-back Figueroa on the weekend - and had to explain his nine-year-old boy who Heskey was.

Figueroa has appeared at 2 global tournaments for Honduras, in addition to playing in more than two hundred Premier League matches.

"The news was going round like wildfire they had all these ex-Premier League stars," remarked the player.

"I think I was a little starstruck facing him to be honest.

"Even Emile [Heskey] came on and he's got over 60 English appearances.

"We competed well for a good twenty minutes but then we had a player dismissed and it was tough.

"We really haven't stopped talking about it - I was calling my mum and sibling on the journey home.

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

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

We Will Still Take the Title'

Andy Kirby manages the Collegiate vets team, who won the Top Division championship last season, along with Paul Maguire.

"We scored 1-0 up and had a