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How can you enhance a outstanding veteran squad that have won back-to-back championships, including a league-cup double with thirty victories from thirty-two matches?

Recruit a raft of former pro players that have played at the top level of club football and global soccer as you aim for further honors.

One Manchester side fields an non-professional veterans team with 9 ex- Premier League players in their active squad.

222 Top Division Scores, Three Hundred Twenty-Five International Caps

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

The roster this campaign features 9 ex- top-flight players, with a total 1,801 Premier League games.

The star-studded roster also boasts 222 Premier League goals and 325 international caps.

They include one forward, who netted thirty-seven scores in over 100 games for his former club after signing for them for £9m from Bundesliga club Freiburg in January 2012.

Cisse had his first appearance for Wythenshawe in their last home match versus reigning champions Collegiate Old Boys and scored every one of the six scores in a 6-2 victory - featuring a 32-minute first-half hat-trick.

The squad for this campaign also includes ex- professionals such as English and Liverpool striker Emile Heskey, Hull City and Burnley winger George Boyd, Everton forward Oumar Niasse, Wigan defender Maynor Figueroa, City pair Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and top-flight championship winners Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

Together, the former Premier League players have secured 15 major honors and transferred for total transfer sums of approximately £123m.

Well-Known Figures and Global Players

Stephen Ireland began playing for the side during pre-season this summer through close friend and current Wythenshawe teammate Blake Norton, and the former Irish midfielder then invited other former professionals, who all compete in a midweek small-sided match, to participate.

Ex- Senegal striker Oumar Niasse, who netted twelve goals in sixty-five Premier League matches for the Toffees and still attends their matches at Goodison Park, also had his first appearance against Collegiate OB - who are based in Liverpool and wear an Blue training kit as their strip.

"A friend Stephen told me 'join and play, it's good fun'," said the striker.

"Then he told me we were facing a side from Liverpool and the shock I had when I saw them sporting Blue kits - I say this is strange for me!

"When you still enjoy the game and you know you can still play, wherever you can kick a ball, what are you going to do?

"Those fans who turn up and watch are happy and to give someone's moment if they watch us playing there and to ask us queries - it's really about the joy of us having somewhere we can play, with organisation of course."

So great is the strength in depth at Wythenshawe, Niasse made his first game at defender.

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

"I warn my defender 'I'm not staying' and that I'm just going to continue running.

"That running is what I'm seeking. It's enjoyable."

'Surreal Feeling

In addition to Cisse's six scores on debut, Stephen Ireland has scored 8 in three games for the side, while George Boyd hit 5 on his first match and Lescott, a centre-half by position, notched a hat-trick in one game as a striker.

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

Paul Barrow, thirty-eight, who features on the flank for Collegiate OB, came up against former Wigan defender Maynor Figueroa on the weekend - and had to explain his young boy who Emile Heskey was.

Figueroa has appeared at two global tournaments for his country, in as well as featuring in over 200 top-flight matches.

"It was spreading like wildfire they had these former top-flight stars," said Barrow.

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

"Even Heskey got on and he's has 60-odd English appearances.

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

"We 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 group of regular guys.

"Now we are eager for the return match."

We Will Still Win the Title'

Andy Kirby coaches the Collegiate vets side, who secured the Premier Division championship last season, along with Paul Maguire.

"We scored 1-0 ahead and had a