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How do you enhance a excellent experienced team who have secured back-to-back titles, featuring a league-cup double boasting thirty victories from thirty-two matches?

Recruit a collection of former pro players who have performed at the elite tier of club and global football as you aim for further honors.

A Greater Manchester side boasts an non-professional veterans squad with nine former top-flight players in their present lineup.

222 Premier League Scores, 325 International Appearances

The team Vets Over-35s are located in south the city and play in the Cheshire-based Vets League Premier Tier.

Their squad list this campaign boasts nine former Premier League footballers, with a total over 1,800 top-flight matches.

The high-profile roster also contains 222 top division goals and 325 international caps.

The squad include one forward, who notched thirty-seven scores in 117 games for Newcastle United after signing for them for nine million pounds from German league side SC Freiburg in January 2012.

He had his first appearance for Wythenshawe in their last home-field game against reigning title holders Collegiate Old Boys and netted all six goals in a 6-2 victory - featuring a half-hour opening period hat-trick.

The team for this season also includes ex- professionals such as England and Liverpool forward Emile Heskey, Hull City and Burnley winger George Boyd, Toffees striker Oumar Niasse, Wigan Athletic full-back Maynor Figueroa, Manchester City duo Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and top-flight title victors Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

Collectively, the former top-flight footballers have claimed 15 major honors and moved for total transfer fees of around £123m.

Household Names and Global Stars

Ireland started playing for the side during pre-season this summer through good friend and current team player Blake Norton, and the ex- Republic of Ireland midfielder then asked other former professionals, who all compete in a midweek nine-a-side game, to join in.

Former Senegal forward Niasse, who netted twelve scores in 65 top-flight matches for the Toffees and even now goes to their matches at Goodison Park, also made his debut against Collegiate OB - who are based in the city and wear an Everton training kit as their strip.

"A mate Stephen Ireland said 'come and play, it's good fun'," said the striker.

"Then he told me we were facing a team from Liverpool and the surprise I had when I saw them wearing Everton kits - I say this is strange for me!

"If you still love the game and you feel you can still do it, anywhere you can kick a ball, what are you going to do?

"The fans who turn up and watch are happy and to give a moment if they see us competing there and to pose us queries - it's more like the pleasure of us having somewhere we can enjoy football, with organisation of course."

So great is the strength in depth at the club, he made his debut at defender.

"It's a little unusual but then, I enjoy running and just go forward - I'm not defending that much," he added.

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

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

Dreamlike' Experience

In addition to Cisse's 6 scores on his first game, Stephen Ireland has netted eight in three games for the side, while George Boyd scored 5 on his debut match and Lescott, a centre-half by position, scored a triple in one match as a striker.

The team are leading of the Top Tier with three wins from 3 and a GD of +19.

Paul Barrow, thirty-eight, who features on the flank for Collegiate OB, faced former Wigan defender Figueroa on Sunday - and had to tell his young boy who Heskey was.

He has played at two global tournaments for his country, in addition to featuring in more than two hundred top-flight matches.

"The news was going round like wildfire they had these former top-flight stars," said the player.

"I felt I was a little starstruck playing against Figueroa to be honest.

"Also Emile [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 tough.

"We really haven't ceased talking 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 facing a group of regular fellas.

"Now we are eager for the return fixture."

'We'll Still Win the Title'

Andy Kirby manages the opposition veterans team, who won the Top Division championship the previous campaign, together with his co-manager.

"We went one-nil ahead and had a