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How can you improve a stellar experienced side that have secured consecutive titles, including a league-cup double with thirty wins from 32 matches?

Bring in a group of former pro players that have played at the highest level of club and international football as you target additional honors.

One Greater Manchester side boasts an amateur veterans team with nine ex- top-flight players in their current squad.

222 Premier League Scores, 325 International Appearances

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

Their roster this season boasts nine former Premier League players, with a total over 1,800 Premier League games.

This elite team also includes 222 top division scores and over 320 international appearances.

The squad include Papiss Cisse, who netted 37 goals in 117 games for Newcastle United after moving to them for nine million pounds from German league side SC Freiburg in 2012.

He made his first appearance for the team in their last home-field match against reigning champions their rivals and scored every one of the six goals in a 6-2 win - featuring a 32-minute opening period hat-trick.

The roster for this season also includes former professionals such as English and Anfield striker Emile Heskey, Hull and Burnley midfielder George Boyd, Everton forward Oumar Niasse, Wigan defender Maynor Figueroa, City pair Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and top-flight title victors Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

Collectively, the former Premier League footballers have secured fifteen significant honors and moved for combined transfer fees of approximately £123 million.

Well-Known Names and Global Players

Stephen Ireland started playing for the side in pre-season this summer through good friend and present team player Blake Norton, and the ex- Irish player then asked additional former professionals, who all compete in a weekly small-sided game, to join in.

Ex- Senegalese striker Oumar Niasse, who scored 12 goals in sixty-five top-flight games for the Toffees and even now attends their matches at Goodison Park, also had his first appearance versus Collegiate OB - who are located in Liverpool and wear an Blue training kit as their uniform.

"My mate Stephen Ireland said 'join and have a game, it's a laugh'," said the striker.

"After that he told me we were playing a team from the city and the surprise I had when I saw them wearing Everton kits - I thought this is wrong for me!

"If you still enjoy football and you know you can still play, wherever you can kick a ball, what are you going to choose?

"Those people who turn up and see are happy and to make someone's moment if they see us playing there and to ask us questions - it's more like the joy of us having a place we can play, with organisation of course."

Such is the bench strength at Wythenshawe, Niasse made his first game at defender.

"That'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 continue running.

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

Dreamlike' Feeling

In addition to Cisse's 6 scores on his first game, Ireland has scored 8 in three games for Wythenshawe, while Boyd hit five on his first appearance and Lescott, a defender by position, notched a hat-trick in one match up front.

Wythenshawe are top of the Top Tier with 3 wins from three and a goal difference of plus nineteen.

One opponent, 38, who plays on the wing for the opposition, faced former Wigan full-back Maynor Figueroa on the weekend - and had to tell his nine-year-old boy who Emile Heskey was.

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

"The news was going round like a rumor they had these former top-flight stars," said the player.

"I felt I was a little awestruck facing him to be honest.

"Even Emile [Heskey] got on and he's got over 60 English appearances.

"Our side held our own for a good 20 mins but then we had a player dismissed and it was hard.

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

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

"Now we are eager for the return fixture."

We Will Still Win the League'

Andy Kirby manages the Collegiate veterans side, who won the Premier Division title last season, along with Paul Maguire.

"We scored one-nil ahead and had a