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How do you enhance a excellent experienced squad that have claimed back-to-back championships, including a double triumph with thirty victories from thirty-two games?

Recruit a collection of former pro players who have played at the top tier of club and global soccer as you aim for additional trophies.

A Greater Manchester team fields an amateur vets squad with nine former top-flight players in their active lineup.

222 Top Division Goals, 325 International Caps

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

Their squad list this campaign boasts 9 former Premier League players, with a combined 1,801 Premier League games.

The elite roster also includes over 220 Premier League goals and 325 global caps.

The squad include one forward, who notched thirty-seven goals in over 100 games for his former club after signing for them for nine million pounds from Bundesliga club Freiburg in 2012.

Cisse had his debut for the team in their last home-field match against defending champions their rivals and scored every one of the six scores in a 6-2 victory - including a half-hour opening period hat-trick.

The team for this campaign also includes ex- pros such as England and Liverpool forward Emile Heskey, Hull City and Burnley FC midfielder George Boyd, Toffees striker Oumar Niasse, Wigan defender Maynor Figueroa, City duo Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and top-flight title victors Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

Together, the ex- Premier League players have secured fifteen big trophies and moved for total transfer fees of approximately £123m.

Well-Known Figures and Global Players

Stephen Ireland started playing for the side in preseason this summer through close mate and current team teammate Blake Norton, and the former Irish player then asked additional former professionals, who all play in a weekly small-sided game, to join in.

Ex- Senegalese striker Niasse, who netted twelve goals in 65 top-flight matches for Everton and even now goes to their matches at Goodison Park, also made his first appearance versus the opposition - who are located in the city and use an Blue training kit as their uniform.

"My friend Stephen said 'come and play, it's good fun'," commented the striker.

"After that he told me we were facing a team from Liverpool and the surprise I had when I noticed them wearing Everton shirts - I say this is strange for me!

"If you still enjoy the game and you feel you can still do it, wherever you can kick a ball, what are you going to do?

"The people who come and watch are happy and to make a moment if they watch us playing there and to pose us queries - it's more like the pleasure of us getting a place we can play, with organisation of course."

Such is the bench strength at Wythenshawe, he had his debut at full-back.

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

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

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

Unreal Scenario

Along with the forward's 6 goals on debut, Ireland has scored 8 in three appearances for the side, while Boyd hit five on his first match and Joleon Lescott, a centre-half by trade, notched a triple in one match up front.

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

Paul Barrow, thirty-eight, who plays on the flank for the opposition, faced ex- Wigan full-back Figueroa on Sunday - and had to tell his young boy who Emile Heskey was.

Figueroa has played at 2 World Cups for his country, in addition to playing in more than 200 top-flight matches.

"The news was spreading like a rumor they had these former top-flight stars," remarked Barrow.

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

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

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

"Our group literally haven't ceased chatting about it - I was phoning my mother and sibling on the journey home.

"The opponents were all really nice, shaking our hands after the match - it was like facing a bunch of normal guys.

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

We Will Still Take the Title'

Andy Kirby coaches the opposition veterans side, who won the Premier Tier title last season, together with Paul Maguire.

"We scored one-nil ahead and had a