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How can you improve a excellent experienced side who have claimed back-to-back championships, featuring a double triumph with 30 wins from thirty-two games?

Bring in a collection of ex- pro players who have competed at the elite tier of club and international soccer as you target additional silverware.

One Greater Manchester team boasts an amateur vets team with 9 former Premier League footballers in their present roster.

Two Hundred Twenty-Two Premier League Scores, Three Hundred Twenty-Five Global Caps

The team Veterans Over-35s are situated in south the city and play in the Cheshire-based Vets League Premier Tier.

The lineup this season boasts 9 former Premier League footballers, with a total over 1,800 top-flight games.

The high-profile squad also includes over 220 Premier League scores and over 320 global appearances.

They include Papiss Cisse, who notched 37 scores in over 100 games for his former club after signing for them for £9m from Bundesliga club SC Freiburg in January 2012.

Cisse made his first appearance for the team in their most recent home-field game against reigning champions their rivals and scored every one of the six goals in a 6-2 victory - featuring a half-hour first-half triple.

The squad for this campaign also includes former pros such as English and Anfield forward Emile Heskey, Hull City and Burnley winger George Boyd, Everton striker Oumar Niasse, Wigan Athletic full-back Maynor Figueroa, Manchester City pair Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and Premier League championship winners Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

Collectively, the ex- top-flight players have claimed fifteen major honors and transferred for total transfer fees of approximately £123m.

Well-Known Names and Global Stars

Stephen Ireland began playing for the side during preseason this summer through close friend and current Wythenshawe teammate Blake Norton, and the former Republic of Ireland midfielder then asked additional former professionals, who all compete in a weekly nine-a-side game, to participate.

Former Senegal striker Niasse, who scored twelve scores in sixty-five top-flight matches for the Toffees and even now attends their matches at Goodison Park, also had his debut against Collegiate OB - who are located in Liverpool and wear an Blue training kit as their strip.

"A mate Stephen told me 'come and play, it's a laugh'," commented Niasse.

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

"When you still enjoy football and you know you can still play, anywhere you can kick a ball, what are you going to do?

"The spectators who turn up and see are happy and to make a day if they watch us competing there and to pose us queries - it's more like the pleasure of us getting a place we can play, with structure of course."

Such is the squad depth at the club, Niasse made his first game at defender.

"That's a little unusual but then, I enjoy running and just move forward - I'm not defending that much," he said.

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

"The movement is what I'm seeking. It's good fun."

'Surreal Feeling

Along with the forward's six goals on his first game, Ireland has scored eight in 3 games for the side, while Boyd scored 5 on his debut appearance and Joleon Lescott, a defender by trade, notched a triple in one match as a striker.

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

One opponent, thirty-eight, who plays on the wing for the opposition, came up against former Latics defender Figueroa on Sunday - and had to explain his young son who Heskey was.

Figueroa has played at two global tournaments for his country, in addition to featuring in over 200 top-flight matches.

"It was going round like wildfire they had these former top-flight players," said the player.

"I felt I was a little starstruck playing against him to be honest.

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

"Our side held our own for a good 20 minutes but then we had a man dismissed and it was tough.

"We really haven't ceased talking about it - I was calling my mother and brother on the journey home.

"They were all really nice, shaking our hands after the match - it was like playing a group of normal fellas.

"Now we are eager for the second fixture."

'We'll Still Win the Title'

The manager manages the opposition veterans side, who won the Top Tier title the previous campaign, together with Paul Maguire.

"Our team went one-nil ahead and had a