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How can you improve a stellar veteran side that have claimed back-to-back championships, featuring a double triumph with 30 victories from 32 games?

Bring in a raft of former pro players who have played at the highest level of club football and international soccer as you aim for further honors.

A Greater Manchester team boasts an non-professional vets team with nine ex- Premier League players in their current squad.

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

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

Their roster this campaign boasts nine former top-flight footballers, with a total nearly 1,800 elite games.

The star-studded squad also boasts over 220 Premier League scores and 325 global caps.

The squad include one forward, who scored thirty-seven goals in over 100 games for his former club after joining them for nine million pounds from German league club Freiburg in 2012.

He made his debut for the team in their most recent home game versus defending title holders Collegiate Old Boys and scored all six goals in a 6-2 victory - including a 32-minute opening period triple.

Wythenshawe's team for this campaign also features ex- pros such as England and Anfield forward Emile Heskey, Hull City and Burnley FC winger George Boyd, Everton striker Oumar Niasse, Wigan Athletic defender Maynor Figueroa, City pair Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and Premier League championship winners Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

In total, the ex- Premier League players have won 15 significant trophies and transferred for combined transfer sums of about £123 million.

Famous Figures and International Stars

Stephen Ireland started turning out for the side in preseason this season through close mate and present team teammate Blake Norton, and the former Irish midfielder then invited additional former professionals, who all play in a midweek small-sided match, to join in.

Ex- Senegal forward Niasse, who scored 12 scores in sixty-five Premier League matches for Everton and even now attends their matches at Goodison Park, also had his debut against Collegiate OB - who are based in Liverpool and wear an Blue warm-up gear as their strip.

"A mate Stephen Ireland said 'come and play, it's enjoyable'," said Niasse.

"Then he told me we were playing a team from the city and the surprise I had when I noticed them sporting Blue kits - I say this is strange for me!

"If you still enjoy football and you know you can still play, wherever you can play, what are you going to do?

"Those fans who turn up and see are pleased and to give someone's moment if they watch us competing there and to pose us queries - it's more like the pleasure of us getting somewhere we can enjoy football, with structure of course."

So great is the bench strength at the club, Niasse made his debut at full-back.

"It's a bit 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 staying' and that I'm just going to keep attacking.

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

Unreal Feeling

Along with Cisse's 6 scores on debut, Stephen Ireland has netted eight in three appearances for Wythenshawe, while Boyd scored five on his debut appearance and Joleon Lescott, a centre-half by trade, notched a triple in one match as a striker.

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

Paul Barrow, 38, who features on the flank for Collegiate OB, came up against former Latics full-back Figueroa on Sunday - and had to explain his nine-year-old son who Heskey was.

He has appeared at two World Cups for Honduras, in addition to playing in over two hundred Premier League games.

"It was going round like wildfire they had these ex-Premier League players," remarked Barrow.

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

"Also Heskey got on and he's got over 60 English appearances.

"Our side held our own for a solid 20 mins but then we had a player dismissed and it was tough.

"We really have not stopped chatting 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 playing a group of regular fellas.

"Now we are eager for the return match."

We Will Still Take the Title'

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

"Our team went one-nil ahead and had a