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What do you enhance a excellent veteran team that have claimed consecutive championships, including a double triumph with thirty victories from 32 games?

Sign a collection of ex- pro players that have performed at the top level of club and global football as you pursue more silverware.

A Manchester side has an amateur vets squad with nine ex- Premier League footballers in their present roster.

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

The team Veterans Over 35s are located in southern Manchester and play in the Cheshire Veterans Division Premier Tier.

Their roster this season boasts nine former Premier League footballers, with a collective 1,801 elite appearances.

The elite squad also contains over 220 Premier League scores and 325 international appearances.

The squad include one forward, who scored 37 scores in over 100 appearances for his former club after joining them for nine million pounds from German league side SC Freiburg in January 2012.

Cisse made his debut for the team in their last home-field game against reigning title holders Collegiate Old Boys and netted every one of the six scores in a 6-2 victory - featuring a half-hour first-half hat-trick.

The squad for this season also includes former professionals such as England and Anfield forward Emile Heskey, Hull and Burnley winger George Boyd, Everton forward Oumar Niasse, Wigan Athletic full-back Maynor Figueroa, City duo Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and Premier League championship victors Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

In total, the former top-flight players have claimed 15 big honors and transferred for total transfer sums of about £123m.

Household Figures and Global Stars

Stephen Ireland began playing for the team in pre-season this season through good friend and present team teammate Blake Norton, and the former Republic of Ireland midfielder then asked other ex-pros, who all compete in a weekly nine-a-side game, to join in.

Ex- Senegalese forward Oumar Niasse, who scored twelve goals in 65 Premier League matches for Everton and even now attends their matches at Goodison Park, also had his first appearance versus Collegiate OB - who are based in Liverpool and use an Everton warm-up gear as their uniform.

"My mate Stephen Ireland said 'join and play, it's a laugh'," commented the striker.

"After that he told me we were playing a team from the city and the surprise I had when I noticed them sporting Blue shirts - I thought this is strange for me!

"When 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 come and watch are happy and to give a moment if they watch us competing there and to ask us queries - it's more like the pleasure of us getting somewhere we can enjoy football, with organisation of course."

So great is the bench strength at the club, he had his debut at defender.

"It's a bit unusual but then, I love running and just move forward - 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 continue running.

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

Unreal Scenario

In addition to Cisse's six scores on his first game, Ireland has scored eight in 3 appearances for Wythenshawe, while Boyd scored five on his debut appearance and Joleon Lescott, a centre-half by position, scored a triple in one match as a striker.

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

Paul Barrow, thirty-eight, who features on the flank for the opposition, faced ex- Wigan defender Maynor Figueroa on Sunday - and had to explain his nine-year-old son who Heskey was.

He has played at two global tournaments for his country, in as well as playing in over 200 Premier League games.

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

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

"Even Heskey came on and he's has over 60 England appearances.

"We held our own for a good 20 mins but then we had a player dismissed and it was hard.

"We really have not stopped chatting about it - I was calling my mother and brother on the way home.

"The opponents were all dead sound, shaking our hands after the game - it was like facing a bunch of regular fellas.

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

We Will Still Win the League'

The manager coaches the Collegiate vets side, who secured the Top Tier championship the previous campaign, along with his co-manager.

"We scored 1-0 ahead and had a