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How do you enhance a stellar experienced team that have won consecutive titles, including a double triumph with 30 victories from thirty-two matches?

Sign a collection of ex- pro players that have performed at the elite level of club and global soccer as you pursue additional silverware.

A Greater Manchester side boasts an amateur vets team with nine ex- Premier League footballers in their present lineup.

222 Premier League Goals, Three Hundred Twenty-Five Global Appearances

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

The roster this season includes nine ex- top-flight players, with a collective 1,801 top-flight appearances.

This star-studded squad also boasts 222 top division goals and 325 global caps.

The squad include Papiss Cisse, who scored 37 goals in 117 games for Newcastle United after joining them for £9m from German league side Freiburg in January 2012.

He made his first appearance for the team in their last home game versus reigning title holders their rivals and scored every one of the six scores in a six-two victory - including a 32-minute opening period triple.

The squad for this campaign also features ex- pros such as England and Anfield forward Emile Heskey, Hull City and Burnley FC winger George Boyd, Everton forward Oumar Niasse, Wigan Athletic full-back Maynor Figueroa, Manchester City duo Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and Premier League title winners Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

Together, the former top-flight footballers have claimed fifteen big trophies and transferred for total transfer fees of about £123m.

Well-Known Names and International Players

Ireland began turning out for the side during preseason this season through good mate and present team player Blake Norton, and the former Republic of Ireland player then asked other former professionals, who all play in a weekly nine-a-side match, to join in.

Ex- Senegal striker Oumar Niasse, who netted twelve scores in 65 Premier League games for the Toffees and still attends their matches at Goodison Park, also made his debut versus the opposition - who are based in the city and use an Everton training kit as their uniform.

"My friend Stephen told me 'join and play, it's enjoyable'," said the striker.

"Then he informed me we were playing a side from the city and the shock I had when I saw them sporting Blue shirts - I say this is wrong for me!

"When you still enjoy football and you know you can still do it, wherever you can play, what are you going to choose?

"Those people who turn up and see are happy and to give a day if they watch us competing there and to pose us queries - it's more like the joy of us getting somewhere we can enjoy football, with structure of course."

Such is the strength in depth at the club, Niasse had his first game at defender.

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

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

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

Dreamlike' Scenario

Along with Cisse's 6 scores on his first game, Ireland has netted eight in three games for Wythenshawe, while Boyd scored five on his debut match and Joleon Lescott, a defender by trade, scored a triple in one match as a striker.

The team are top of the Top Division with 3 victories from three and a goal difference of +19.

Paul Barrow, thirty-eight, who features on the flank for Collegiate OB, faced ex- Wigan full-back Maynor Figueroa on Sunday - and had to tell his nine-year-old son who Emile Heskey was.

Figueroa has played at two World Cups for Honduras, in as well as featuring in over 200 top-flight games.

"It was spreading like wildfire they had these ex-Premier League stars," remarked the player.

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

"Even Emile [Heskey] got on and he's got over 60 England caps.

"We held our own for a good twenty mins but then we had a player sent off and it was tough.

"Our group really have not stopped talking about it - I was phoning my mum and sibling on the way home.

"The opponents were all dead sound, shaking our hands after the game - it was like facing a group of regular guys.

"Now we are eager for the return fixture."

We Will Still Win the Title'

Andy Kirby manages the opposition vets team, who won the Premier Tier championship the previous campaign, together with his co-manager.

"Our team scored 1-0 up and had a