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What can you improve a excellent veteran side who have secured back-to-back championships, including a double triumph with 30 victories from 32 games?

Sign a raft of ex- professionals that have performed at the highest level of club football and global soccer as you pursue additional honors.

A Greater Manchester side boasts an amateur veterans squad with 9 ex- top-flight footballers in their present squad.

222 Premier League Goals, 325 International Caps

Wythenshawe Vets Over 35s are based in south the city and play in the Cheshire Veterans Division Top Tier.

Their roster this season boasts nine ex- Premier League players, with a collective nearly 1,800 top-flight appearances.

This elite squad also contains 222 Premier League goals and 325 global appearances.

They feature one forward, who notched 37 goals in 117 games for Newcastle United after moving to them for £9m from Bundesliga club SC Freiburg in January 2012.

Cisse made his first appearance for Wythenshawe in their last home-field game versus defending champions Collegiate Old Boys and netted all six scores in a six-two win - featuring a half-hour first-half hat-trick.

The team for this season also features former pros such as English and Anfield forward Emile Heskey, Hull and Burnley winger George Boyd, Everton forward Oumar Niasse, Wigan Athletic defender Maynor Figueroa, City duo Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and top-flight title winners Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

Collectively, the ex- Premier League footballers have claimed 15 big honors and transferred for combined transfer sums of approximately £123 million.

Well-Known Names and Global Stars

Stephen Ireland began playing for the side in pre-season this summer through good friend and present team player Blake Norton, and the former Irish player then invited other former professionals, who all compete in a weekly small-sided match, to participate.

Ex- Senegal forward Oumar Niasse, who netted 12 goals in sixty-five top-flight games for the Toffees and even now attends their home games, also made his debut against the opposition - who are based in the city and wear an Everton training kit as their uniform.

"My mate Stephen said 'join and play, it's enjoyable'," said Niasse.

"After that he informed me we were facing a team from Liverpool and the surprise I had when I saw them sporting Blue shirts - I say this is strange for me!

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

"The spectators who come and see are happy and to make a moment if they watch us playing there and to pose us queries - it's really about the joy of us having a place we can enjoy football, with structure of course."

So great is the bench strength at the club, he had his debut at full-back.

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

"I warn my centre-back 'I'm not staying' and that I'm just going to keep running.

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

Unreal Experience

Along with the forward's six scores on his first game, Ireland has netted eight in 3 games for the side, while George Boyd hit 5 on his first match and Joleon Lescott, a centre-half by trade, scored a triple in one game as a striker.

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

Paul Barrow, thirty-eight, who features on the wing for the opposition, came up against former Latics full-back Maynor Figueroa on the weekend - and had to explain his nine-year-old boy who Heskey was.

Figueroa has played at two World Cups for Honduras, in addition to featuring in more than two hundred top-flight matches.

"The news was going round like wildfire they had all these former top-flight players," remarked the player.

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

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

"We competed well for a solid twenty mins but then we had a man sent off and it was tough.

"Our group really haven't stopped talking about it - I was calling my mum and sibling on the journey home.

"They were all dead sound, shaking our hands after the match - it was like facing a bunch of normal fellas.

"Now we are eager for the return fixture."

'We'll Still Take the Title'

The manager coaches the Collegiate veterans team, who secured the Premier Tier championship last season, together with his co-manager.

"Our team scored 1-0 ahead and had a