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What do you boost a outstanding experienced team that have claimed consecutive championships, including a double triumph boasting thirty wins from thirty-two games?

Recruit a collection of former pro players that have competed at the top level of club football and global football as you aim for additional trophies.

One Greater Manchester team fields an amateur vets team with 9 ex- top-flight footballers in their active lineup.

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

Wythenshawe Veterans Over 35s are situated in south Manchester and play in the Cheshire-based Veterans League Premier Tier.

Their squad list this season boasts 9 former top-flight players, with a collective over 1,800 elite games.

This star-studded squad also contains 222 top division scores and over 320 international caps.

They include one forward, who scored 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 game against defending champions their rivals and netted all six goals in a six-two victory - featuring a 32-minute opening period hat-trick.

The roster for this campaign also features former pros such as English and Anfield striker Emile Heskey, Hull and Burnley midfielder George Boyd, Toffees striker Oumar Niasse, Wigan defender Maynor Figueroa, Manchester City duo Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and top-flight championship victors Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

In total, the ex- Premier League footballers have claimed fifteen big trophies and transferred for combined transfer sums of around £123m.

Famous Figures and International Players

Stephen Ireland began playing for the side in preseason this summer through good mate and current team player Blake Norton, and the ex- Republic of Ireland player then invited other ex-pros, who all compete in a weekly small-sided match, to participate.

Ex- Senegal striker Niasse, who scored 12 scores in sixty-five Premier League matches for Everton and still goes to their home games, also made his first appearance against Collegiate OB - who are located in the city and wear an Everton training kit as their strip.

"My friend Stephen told me 'join and play, it's enjoyable'," commented the striker.

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

"If you still love football and you know you can still do it, wherever you can kick a ball, what are you going to do?

"The spectators who turn up and watch are pleased and to give someone's day if they watch us competing there and to ask us queries - it's more like the pleasure of us having somewhere we can play, with organisation of course."

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

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

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

"The movement is what I'm after. It's good fun."

'Surreal Experience

Along with Cisse's 6 scores on debut, Stephen Ireland has netted 8 in three games for the side, while George Boyd hit 5 on his first match and Joleon Lescott, a centre-half by trade, scored a hat-trick in one match as a striker.

Wythenshawe are top of the Top Tier with 3 wins from three and a goal difference of plus nineteen.

One opponent, thirty-eight, who features on the wing for Collegiate OB, faced ex- Wigan full-back Maynor Figueroa on the weekend - and had to explain his young son who Emile Heskey was.

He has played at 2 global tournaments for his country, in as well as playing in more than 200 Premier League matches.

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

"I think I was a bit starstruck facing Figueroa to be honest.

"Even Heskey came on and he's got 60-odd England appearances.

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

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

"They 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 second match."

'We'll Still Win the Title'

The manager manages the Collegiate vets team, who secured the Premier Division championship last season, together with his co-manager.

"We went 1-0 up and had a