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What can you improve a excellent experienced team that have secured consecutive championships, featuring a league-cup double boasting thirty victories from 32 games?

Recruit a collection of former pro players who have competed at the elite tier of club and international football as you aim for more honors.

A Greater Manchester club has an non-professional vets team with nine former Premier League footballers in their active lineup.

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

Wythenshawe Vets Over-35s are located in southern the city and compete in the Cheshire Veterans League Top Division.

The roster this campaign boasts 9 former top-flight players, with a total over 1,800 top-flight matches.

This high-profile squad also boasts over 220 top division goals and over 320 global appearances.

The squad feature one forward, who netted 37 scores in 117 games for his former club after moving to them for £9m from German league side Freiburg in January 2012.

Cisse had his first appearance for Wythenshawe in their last home-field game versus defending champions Collegiate Old Boys and netted every one of the six goals in a six-two win - featuring a half-hour opening period triple.

Wythenshawe's team for this season also includes former pros such as English and Anfield forward Emile Heskey, Hull and Burnley midfielder George Boyd, Everton forward Oumar Niasse, Wigan Athletic defender Maynor Figueroa, Manchester City duo Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and Premier League championship winners Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

In total, the ex- Premier League footballers have claimed 15 big trophies and moved for total transfer fees of around £123 million.

Well-Known Figures and International Players

Ireland began turning out for the side during preseason this season through good mate and present Wythenshawe teammate Blake Norton, and the ex- Republic of Ireland midfielder then asked additional former professionals, who all compete in a midweek nine-a-side game, to participate.

Former Senegal striker Oumar Niasse, who scored 12 goals in 65 Premier League matches for the Toffees and still goes to their home games, also had his first appearance against Collegiate OB - who are based in Liverpool and use an Blue training kit as their strip.

"A friend Stephen said 'join and have a game, it's good fun'," commented the striker.

"After that he informed me we were facing a side from Liverpool and the surprise I had when I saw them sporting Everton kits - I say this is strange for me!

"If you still love the game and you know you can still play, wherever you can play, what are you going to do?

"Those people who turn up and watch are happy and to give someone's moment if they see us playing there and to pose us queries - it's really about the joy of us having a place we can enjoy football, with structure of course."

Such is the strength in depth at Wythenshawe, Niasse had his debut at defender.

"It's a bit different but then, I love sprinting and just go inside - I'm not defending that much," he added.

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

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

Dreamlike' Feeling

In addition to Cisse's 6 scores on debut, Stephen Ireland has netted eight in three games for Wythenshawe, while George Boyd hit five on his first appearance and Lescott, a defender by position, notched a triple in one match up front.

The team are leading of the Premier Tier with three wins from 3 and a GD of plus nineteen.

One opponent, 38, who features on the flank for the opposition, faced former Latics full-back Figueroa on Sunday - and had to tell his nine-year-old son who Emile Heskey was.

Figueroa has played at two World Cups for Honduras, in addition to playing in over 200 top-flight games.

"The news was going round like wildfire they had these former top-flight stars," said Barrow.

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

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

"Our side held our own for a solid twenty minutes but then we had a man dismissed and it was tough.

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

"The opponents were all dead sound, shaking our hands after the match - it was like playing a bunch of normal guys.

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

'We'll Still Take the Title'

Andy Kirby manages the opposition vets side, who won the Premier Division championship the previous campaign, along with his co-manager.

"Our team went 1-0 ahead and had a