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What do you improve a excellent experienced squad that have secured back-to-back titles, featuring a league-cup double boasting thirty wins from thirty-two matches?

Sign a collection of former professionals that have competed at the highest tier of club football and international football as you target additional trophies.

One Greater Manchester team has an non-professional veterans team with nine ex- top-flight footballers in their active roster.

222 Top Division Scores, 325 Global Appearances

The team Veterans Over-35s are based in southern Manchester and play in the Cheshire Veterans League Top Tier.

The lineup this season features 9 ex- Premier League players, with a collective nearly 1,800 top-flight matches.

The elite squad also boasts 222 top division goals and over 320 global caps.

They include Papiss Cisse, who scored thirty-seven goals in 117 appearances for his former club after joining them for £9m from Bundesliga side SC Freiburg in 2012.

He made his first appearance for Wythenshawe in their last home match versus reigning champions Collegiate Old Boys and netted every one of the six scores in a six-two victory - including a 32-minute opening period triple.

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

Collectively, the former top-flight players have won 15 big honors and transferred for combined transfer fees of approximately £123m.

Household Names and International Stars

Stephen Ireland started turning out for the team in pre-season this season through close friend and current Wythenshawe player Blake Norton, and the former Republic of Ireland midfielder then asked additional ex-pros, who all play in a midweek nine-a-side game, to participate.

Former Senegalese forward Niasse, who netted twelve goals in sixty-five top-flight matches for Everton and still attends their home games, also made his first appearance versus Collegiate OB - who are based in Liverpool and wear an Everton training kit as their strip.

"A mate Stephen told me 'come and have a game, it's enjoyable'," said the striker.

"After that he informed me we were playing a side from Liverpool and the surprise I had when I noticed them wearing Blue shirts - I say this is wrong 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?

"Those fans who come and see are happy and to make a day if they see us competing there and to ask us queries - it's really about the pleasure of us getting a place we can play, with organisation of course."

So great is the bench strength at Wythenshawe, he had his first game at defender.

"It's a bit unusual but then, I enjoy running and just move inside - I'm not staying back that much," he added.

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

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

Dreamlike' Experience

In addition to Cisse's 6 scores on his first game, Ireland has netted eight in three games for Wythenshawe, while George Boyd hit five on his debut match and Lescott, a centre-half by position, scored a triple in one game as a striker.

Wythenshawe are top of the Premier Division with 3 wins from 3 and a GD of plus nineteen.

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

He has appeared at two World Cups for Honduras, in addition to featuring in over two hundred top-flight games.

"It was spreading like a rumor they had these former top-flight stars," said the player.

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

"Even Emile [Heskey] came on and he's has 60-odd English caps.

"We competed well for a solid 20 minutes but then we had a man dismissed and it was hard.

"We really have not ceased talking about it - I was phoning my mother and sibling on the way home.

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

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

'We'll Still Win the League'

Andy Kirby manages the Collegiate veterans team, who won the Top Tier championship the previous campaign, together with Paul Maguire.

"Our team went one-nil up and had a