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What can you boost a excellent experienced side who have won back-to-back championships, including a league-cup double with 30 victories from thirty-two games?

Recruit a raft of former professionals that have competed at the highest level of club and global soccer as you target additional honors.

A Greater Manchester side boasts an amateur vets team with nine ex- top-flight players in their active lineup.

222 Top Division Goals, Three Hundred Twenty-Five Global Appearances

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

The roster this campaign features 9 former top-flight footballers, with a combined 1,801 elite appearances.

This star-studded roster also contains over 220 top division goals and 325 global caps.

They feature one forward, who netted thirty-seven goals in over 100 games for Newcastle United after moving to them for £9m from German league club Freiburg in 2012.

Cisse had his first appearance for the team in their most recent home-field game versus defending champions their rivals and scored all six scores in a six-two victory - featuring a half-hour opening period hat-trick.

The roster for this season also includes ex- pros such as England and Liverpool striker Emile Heskey, Hull and Burnley midfielder George Boyd, Toffees forward Oumar Niasse, Wigan Athletic full-back Maynor Figueroa, Manchester City pair Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and top-flight title winners Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

Collectively, the ex- Premier League footballers have claimed fifteen big honors and moved for combined transfer sums of approximately £123 million.

Well-Known Figures and International Players

Stephen Ireland started turning out for the side during preseason this season through close mate and current team teammate Blake Norton, and the ex- Irish midfielder then asked additional ex-pros, who all compete in a midweek nine-a-side match, to participate.

Former Senegal striker Oumar Niasse, who scored 12 goals in sixty-five Premier League games for the Toffees and still attends their matches at Goodison Park, also made his first appearance versus Collegiate OB - who are based in Liverpool and use an Blue training kit as their uniform.

"My friend Stephen told me 'come and have a game, it's a laugh'," said Niasse.

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

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

"Those people who come and watch are happy and to make a day if they watch us competing there and to ask us queries - it's really about the pleasure of us having a place we can enjoy football, with organisation of course."

So great is the bench strength at Wythenshawe, Niasse made his debut at defender.

"That's a little unusual but then, I love running and just go forward - I'm not staying back that much," he said.

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

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

Unreal Scenario

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

Wythenshawe are leading of the Top Division with 3 wins from 3 and a goal difference of plus nineteen.

Paul Barrow, 38, who plays on the wing for the opposition, faced former Latics full-back Maynor Figueroa on the weekend - and had to explain his nine-year-old boy who Heskey was.

He has appeared at two World Cups for his country, in as well as featuring in over 200 Premier League matches.

"It was going round like a rumor they had these ex-Premier League stars," remarked the player.

"I think I was a bit awestruck playing against Figueroa to be honest.

"Also Emile [Heskey] came on and he's got 60-odd England caps.

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

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

"They 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 match."

'We'll Still Win the League'

Andy Kirby manages the Collegiate vets side, who won the Top Tier title the previous campaign, together with Paul Maguire.

"Our team scored 1-0 ahead and had a