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What do you boost a outstanding veteran squad that have won back-to-back titles, including a double triumph with 30 victories from 32 matches?

Recruit a raft of former pro players who have performed at the top tier of club and international football as you pursue additional silverware.

One Greater Manchester team fields an amateur vets squad with nine ex- top-flight players in their present roster.

222 Premier League Goals, Three Hundred Twenty-Five Global Appearances

The team Veterans Over 35s are based in southern Manchester and compete in the Cheshire-based Vets League Top Tier.

The lineup this season boasts nine former top-flight footballers, with a collective over 1,800 Premier League games.

This elite squad also contains 222 top division scores and 325 international caps.

They feature Papiss Cisse, who scored 37 scores in 117 appearances for Newcastle United after moving to them for £9m from Bundesliga club Freiburg in 2012.

Cisse had his debut for the team in their most recent home-field game against reigning title holders their rivals and netted every one of the six scores in a six-two victory - featuring a half-hour opening period hat-trick.

Wythenshawe's squad for this campaign also features former pros such as English and Liverpool forward Emile Heskey, Hull and Burnley FC winger George Boyd, Toffees striker Oumar Niasse, Wigan Athletic full-back Maynor Figueroa, City duo Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and top-flight championship winners Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

In total, the ex- Premier League footballers have secured fifteen significant trophies and moved for total transfer fees of around £123 million.

Household Figures and International Players

Ireland began playing for the team in pre-season this season through good friend and present team teammate Blake Norton, and the former Irish player then invited other former professionals, who all play in a weekly nine-a-side match, to participate.

Former Senegalese striker Oumar Niasse, who netted 12 scores in sixty-five top-flight matches for the Toffees and still goes to their matches at Goodison Park, also had his first appearance against Collegiate OB - who are based in Liverpool and wear an Everton training kit as their uniform.

"A mate Stephen told me 'come and play, it's enjoyable'," commented the striker.

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

"If you still enjoy football and you know you can still do it, anywhere you can kick a ball, what are you going to choose?

"The people who turn up and watch are pleased and to make someone's day if they see us competing there and to ask us questions - it's really about the joy of us getting a place we can enjoy football, with organisation of course."

So great is the bench strength at Wythenshawe, he made his debut at full-back.

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

"I tell my defender 'I'm not hanging back' and that I'm just going to keep attacking.

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

Unreal Scenario

Along with the forward's six goals on debut, Stephen Ireland has scored eight in 3 games for Wythenshawe, while George Boyd hit five on his first match and Lescott, a defender by position, scored a hat-trick in one match as a striker.

The team are top of the Premier Division with 3 victories from 3 and a goal difference of +19.

One opponent, 38, who plays on the flank for Collegiate OB, faced former Wigan full-back Maynor Figueroa on Sunday - and had to explain his nine-year-old son who Emile Heskey was.

He has played at 2 global tournaments for Honduras, in addition to featuring in over two hundred Premier League games.

"The news was spreading like a rumor they had all these former top-flight stars," said the player.

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

"Also Heskey came on and he's has over 60 England caps.

"Our side competed well for a good twenty minutes but then we had a player dismissed and it was hard.

"Our group really have not ceased talking about it - I was calling my mum and brother on the way home.

"They were all friendly, shaking our hands after the game - it was like facing a bunch of normal fellas.

"Now we can't wait for the second fixture."

'We'll Still Win the League'

Andy Kirby coaches the Collegiate vets side, who won the Premier Division championship last season, together with Paul Maguire.

"We went 1-0 up and had a