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What can you improve a stellar veteran squad who have secured back-to-back championships, featuring a double triumph with 30 victories from thirty-two games?

Bring in a collection of ex- pro players who have played at the elite level of club football and global soccer as you aim for additional silverware.

A Manchester side has an non-professional vets squad with nine ex- Premier League players in their present squad.

Two Hundred Twenty-Two Premier League Goals, Three Hundred Twenty-Five International Caps

The team Veterans Over 35s are situated in southern Manchester and play in the Cheshire Vets Division Top Tier.

The squad list this campaign includes nine former top-flight footballers, with a combined 1,801 Premier League games.

The elite squad also boasts over 220 Premier League scores and over 320 international caps.

The squad feature Papiss Cisse, who netted thirty-seven scores in over 100 games for his former club after signing for them for £9m from Bundesliga side SC Freiburg in 2012.

He had his debut for Wythenshawe in their most recent home-field match against defending title holders their rivals and netted every one of the six scores in a 6-2 win - featuring a 32-minute opening period triple.

The roster for this campaign also features ex- professionals such as English and Liverpool forward Emile Heskey, Hull and Burnley FC midfielder George Boyd, Toffees striker Oumar Niasse, Wigan Athletic full-back Maynor Figueroa, City duo Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and Premier League title victors Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

Collectively, the ex- top-flight footballers have claimed fifteen significant honors and transferred for combined transfer sums of approximately £123m.

Famous Figures and Global Stars

Ireland started turning out for the side in pre-season this summer through good friend and current team teammate Blake Norton, and the ex- Irish player then invited other former professionals, who all play in a midweek nine-a-side game, to join in.

Former Senegal striker Niasse, who netted 12 goals in sixty-five Premier League games for the Toffees and even now attends their matches at Goodison Park, also made his first appearance versus the opposition - who are located in the city and wear an Everton training kit as their strip.

"My friend Stephen Ireland told me 'come and have a game, it's a laugh'," said Niasse.

"After that he informed me we were playing a team from the city and the surprise I had when I noticed them sporting Everton shirts - I thought this is wrong for me!

"When you still love the game and you feel you can still play, anywhere you can kick a ball, what are you going to do?

"The spectators who turn up and see are pleased and to give someone's day if they watch us competing there and to pose us questions - it's more like the joy of us getting a place we can play, with structure of course."

So great is the bench strength at the club, he had his debut at defender.

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

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

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

Unreal Scenario

In addition to Cisse's six goals on his first game, Stephen Ireland has scored 8 in three appearances for the side, while George Boyd scored 5 on his debut appearance and Lescott, a centre-half by trade, notched a triple in one match up front.

The team are leading of the Premier Tier with 3 victories from 3 and a goal difference of +19.

One opponent, 38, who plays on the wing for the opposition, faced ex- Latics defender Figueroa on the weekend - and had to explain his young son who Heskey was.

He has appeared at 2 World Cups for Honduras, in as well as featuring in more than 200 Premier League matches.

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

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

"Also Emile [Heskey] got on and he's got 60-odd England caps.

"We competed well for a good twenty minutes but then we had a man sent off and it was hard.

"We really haven't stopped chatting about it - I was phoning my mum and brother on the way home.

"The opponents were all dead sound, shaking our hands after the match - it was like playing a bunch of regular fellas.

"Now we are eager for the return fixture."

'We'll Still Win the League'

The manager coaches the Collegiate veterans team, who won the Premier Tier title last season, along with his co-manager.

"Our team went one-nil up and had a