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How can you enhance a stellar experienced squad that have secured consecutive championships, including a league-cup double boasting thirty victories from 32 games?

Recruit a collection of former professionals that have competed at the elite level of club and international football as you target additional honors.

One Greater Manchester side boasts an amateur veterans squad with nine ex- top-flight footballers in their active squad.

Two Hundred Twenty-Two Top Division Scores, 325 International Appearances

The team Veterans Over 35s are situated in southern the city and play in the Cheshire Vets Division Top Division.

The lineup this campaign boasts 9 ex- top-flight footballers, with a combined nearly 1,800 Premier League matches.

The elite roster also boasts 222 Premier League goals and over 320 international caps.

The squad include Papiss Cisse, who notched 37 scores in over 100 games for Newcastle United after joining them for £9m from Bundesliga club SC Freiburg in 2012.

He had his first appearance for Wythenshawe in their most recent home-field game versus reigning champions their rivals and netted all six goals in a six-two victory - featuring a 32-minute opening period triple.

The roster for this campaign also features ex- professionals such as England and Anfield forward Emile Heskey, Hull and Burnley winger George Boyd, Everton striker Oumar Niasse, Wigan Athletic full-back Maynor Figueroa, Manchester City pair Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and top-flight championship winners Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

In total, the former Premier League players have claimed 15 significant honors and moved for total transfer sums of about £123m.

Famous Names and International Players

Stephen Ireland began playing for the side in preseason this summer through good friend and present Wythenshawe teammate Blake Norton, and the ex- Irish midfielder then invited other ex-pros, who all play in a midweek nine-a-side match, to join in.

Former Senegal striker Niasse, who scored 12 scores in 65 top-flight matches for Everton and even now goes to their matches at Goodison Park, also made his first appearance versus Collegiate OB - who are located in the city and use an Everton warm-up gear as their uniform.

"My friend Stephen Ireland said 'come and have a game, it's enjoyable'," said the striker.

"Then he informed me we were facing a side from the city and the shock I had when I noticed them wearing Blue shirts - I thought this is wrong for me!

"If you still enjoy the game and you feel you can still play, wherever you can kick a ball, what are you going to do?

"Those spectators who come and see are pleased and to make a day if they watch us competing there and to ask us questions - it's more like the pleasure of us getting somewhere we can play, with organisation of course."

Such is the squad depth at the club, Niasse had his debut at defender.

"It's a bit unusual but then, I love running and just go inside - I'm not staying back that much," he added.

"I warn my defender 'I'm not staying' and that I'm just going to continue attacking.

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

Dreamlike' Scenario

Along with the forward's 6 goals on debut, Ireland has scored eight in 3 games for Wythenshawe, while Boyd scored 5 on his first appearance and Lescott, a centre-half by trade, notched a hat-trick in one game 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 features on the flank for Collegiate OB, came up against ex- Latics full-back Figueroa on the weekend - and had to explain his nine-year-old son who Heskey was.

He has appeared at two World Cups for Honduras, in addition to featuring in more than two hundred Premier League matches.

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

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

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

"We competed well for a solid 20 mins but then we had a player dismissed and it was tough.

"We really have not ceased chatting about it - I was phoning my mum and brother on the way home.

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

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

'We'll Still Take the League'

The manager coaches the opposition veterans side, who won the Top Tier championship last season, together with his co-manager.

"We scored 1-0 ahead and had a