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What can you improve a excellent veteran team that have secured consecutive titles, including a league-cup double with 30 wins from 32 matches?

Bring in a collection of ex- pro players that have played at the top tier of club and global soccer as you aim for further honors.

One Manchester club fields an non-professional vets squad with 9 ex- Premier League footballers in their present roster.

222 Top Division Scores, 325 Global Appearances

The team Veterans Over-35s are situated in south Manchester and play in the Cheshire Veterans Division Premier Tier.

Their squad list this campaign boasts 9 former Premier League players, with a combined nearly 1,800 top-flight matches.

This star-studded squad also boasts 222 top division scores and over 320 international caps.

The squad include one forward, who notched thirty-seven scores in over 100 appearances for Newcastle United after signing for them for £9m from Bundesliga side Freiburg in January 2012.

Cisse made his debut for the team in their most recent home game against defending title holders their rivals and scored all six scores in a six-two win - including a half-hour opening period hat-trick.

Wythenshawe's team for this season also features former pros such as England and Anfield striker Emile Heskey, Hull City and Burnley FC 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 victors Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

Together, the former Premier League footballers have secured fifteen significant trophies and transferred for combined transfer fees of about £123m.

Well-Known Names and International Stars

Ireland began playing for the side during pre-season this season through good friend and current Wythenshawe player Blake Norton, and the ex- Irish midfielder then invited other ex-pros, who all compete in a midweek nine-a-side match, to participate.

Former Senegal striker Oumar Niasse, who netted twelve goals in sixty-five Premier League matches for the Toffees and still goes to their matches at Goodison Park, also had his debut against Collegiate OB - who are based in the city and wear an Everton training kit as their strip.

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

"Then he told me we were facing a team from Liverpool and the surprise I had when I saw them wearing Everton kits - I say this is strange for me!

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

"The spectators who come and see are happy and to make a moment if they watch us competing there and to pose us queries - it's more like the joy of us getting a place we can enjoy football, with structure of course."

So great is the bench strength at the club, he made his first game at full-back.

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

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

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

Unreal Experience

Along with the forward's 6 goals on his first game, Ireland has netted 8 in three appearances for the side, while Boyd hit five on his debut match and Lescott, a defender by trade, scored a hat-trick in one game up front.

Wythenshawe are top of the Premier Tier with 3 wins from three and a GD of plus nineteen.

Paul Barrow, 38, who features on the flank for Collegiate OB, came up against former Latics defender Maynor Figueroa on the weekend - and had to tell his nine-year-old son who Emile Heskey was.

He has appeared at 2 global tournaments for his country, in addition to playing in over 200 Premier League matches.

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

"I think I was a little starstruck playing against Figueroa to be honest.

"Also Emile [Heskey] came on and he's has over 60 England caps.

"We competed well for a good 20 minutes but then we had a man dismissed and it was tough.

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

"The opponents were all friendly, shaking our hands after the game - it was like playing a group of regular guys.

"Now we are eager for the return fixture."

We Will Still Win the League'

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

"Our team scored 1-0 up and had a