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How can you improve a outstanding experienced team who have claimed back-to-back championships, including a league-cup double with 30 wins from thirty-two games?

Sign a collection of former professionals who have competed at the highest level of club football and international soccer as you pursue further honors.

A Greater Manchester side fields an non-professional vets team with nine ex- Premier League players in their present roster.

Two Hundred Twenty-Two Top Division Goals, 325 International Caps

Wythenshawe Vets Over-35s are situated in southern the city and play in the Cheshire-based Veterans Division Premier Division.

The lineup this season includes 9 ex- top-flight players, with a combined nearly 1,800 top-flight appearances.

The high-profile team also boasts over 220 Premier League scores and over 320 international appearances.

They include one forward, who notched thirty-seven goals in 117 appearances for his former club after signing for them for £9m from German league club SC Freiburg in January 2012.

Cisse had his first appearance for the team in their last home-field match against defending champions their rivals and netted every one of the six scores in a six-two victory - featuring a half-hour first-half hat-trick.

The squad for this season also features ex- professionals such as English and Liverpool forward Emile Heskey, Hull and Burnley winger George Boyd, Toffees forward Oumar Niasse, Wigan defender Maynor Figueroa, City duo Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and Premier League title winners Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

In total, the ex- top-flight footballers have claimed fifteen significant honors and transferred for combined transfer fees of approximately £123 million.

Famous Names and Global Stars

Ireland began turning out for the side during pre-season this summer through close friend and current team player Blake Norton, and the former Republic of Ireland midfielder then asked additional former professionals, who all compete in a weekly nine-a-side match, to join in.

Ex- Senegal striker Niasse, who netted twelve scores in sixty-five top-flight matches for Everton and still attends their matches at Goodison Park, also had his debut against Collegiate OB - who are based in the city and use an Everton warm-up gear as their strip.

"My mate Stephen Ireland said 'come and have a game, it's enjoyable'," said Niasse.

"Then he informed me we were facing a team from the city and the shock I had when I noticed them sporting Everton kits - I say this is strange for me!

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

"The spectators who turn up and see are pleased and to give a moment if they see us competing there and to ask us queries - it's more like the pleasure of us getting a place we can play, with structure of course."

So great is the squad depth at Wythenshawe, he made his first game at defender.

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

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

"The movement is what I'm looking for. It's enjoyable."

Dreamlike' Experience

In addition to Cisse's 6 scores on debut, Stephen Ireland has scored 8 in 3 appearances for Wythenshawe, while Boyd scored five on his debut match and Joleon Lescott, a defender by position, scored a hat-trick in one game up front.

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

Paul Barrow, thirty-eight, who features on the wing for Collegiate OB, came up against former Latics full-back Figueroa on the weekend - and had to explain his young boy who Heskey was.

Figueroa has played at two World Cups for his country, in addition to playing in more than 200 Premier League games.

"The news was spreading like wildfire they had all these ex-Premier League players," remarked the player.

"I felt I was a bit awestruck facing Figueroa to be honest.

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

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

"We literally have not ceased talking about it - I was phoning my mother and brother on the journey home.

"They were all really nice, shaking our hands after the game - it was like playing a bunch of normal guys.

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

'We'll Still Take the Title'

The manager manages the opposition veterans side, who won the Premier Tier championship the previous campaign, together with Paul Maguire.

"Our team scored 1-0 ahead and had a