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How can you improve a outstanding veteran side who have secured consecutive championships, featuring a double triumph with thirty victories from thirty-two games?

Recruit a group of former pro players that have performed at the highest level of club and global football as you pursue further trophies.

One Greater Manchester team fields an amateur vets squad with 9 former Premier League players in their active lineup.

222 Top Division Scores, 325 Global Caps

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

The roster this season boasts 9 ex- top-flight players, with a combined nearly 1,800 Premier League appearances.

The elite squad also boasts 222 top division scores and over 320 international caps.

The squad include one forward, who scored thirty-seven goals in 117 games for his former club after signing for them for £9m from Bundesliga club SC Freiburg in January 2012.

Cisse made his debut for the team in their most recent home-field match versus reigning champions their rivals and netted every one of the six goals in a 6-2 victory - including a half-hour first-half hat-trick.

Wythenshawe's roster for this campaign also features ex- pros such as English and Anfield striker Emile Heskey, Hull and Burnley FC winger George Boyd, Everton striker Oumar Niasse, Wigan defender 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 fifteen significant honors and moved for total transfer fees of approximately £123m.

Famous Names and International Stars

Stephen Ireland began turning out for the side in preseason this summer through close mate and current Wythenshawe teammate Blake Norton, and the ex- Republic of Ireland midfielder then invited additional former professionals, who all compete in a midweek small-sided match, to join in.

Ex- Senegal striker Oumar Niasse, who scored 12 goals in 65 Premier League games for the Toffees and still attends their matches at Goodison Park, also had his first appearance against Collegiate OB - who are located in the city and wear an Blue training kit as their strip.

"My mate Stephen said 'come and play, it's enjoyable'," said the striker.

"After that he informed me we were playing a side from Liverpool and the surprise I had when I saw them wearing Everton shirts - I say this is strange for me!

"If you still love the game and you feel you can still play, wherever you can play, what are you going to choose?

"The fans who turn up and see are pleased and to give a day if they see us playing there and to ask us queries - it's more like the joy of us having somewhere we can play, with organisation of course."

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

"That's a bit unusual but then, I love sprinting and just move forward - I'm not staying back that much," he said.

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

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

Dreamlike' Feeling

Along with Cisse's six goals on debut, Ireland has netted 8 in three appearances for Wythenshawe, while George Boyd scored 5 on his debut appearance and Lescott, a defender by trade, scored a triple in one game as a striker.

Wythenshawe are leading of the Premier Division with 3 victories from three and a GD of +19.

One opponent, 38, who plays on the wing for Collegiate OB, faced former Wigan full-back Maynor Figueroa on Sunday - and had to tell his young boy who Emile Heskey was.

Figueroa has played at two global tournaments for Honduras, in addition to playing in over two hundred Premier League games.

"It was going round like a rumor they had all these ex-Premier League players," said the player.

"I think I was a bit awestruck facing him to be honest.

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

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

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

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

"Now we are eager for the return match."

We Will Still Take the League'

The manager coaches the opposition vets side, who secured the Top Tier championship the previous campaign, together with his co-manager.

"We scored 1-0 up and had a