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What do you boost a excellent experienced side that have secured consecutive championships, including a league-cup double with thirty wins from thirty-two matches?

Sign a collection of former professionals that have performed at the elite tier of club football and international soccer as you aim for more trophies.

One Manchester team has an non-professional veterans team with 9 former top-flight footballers in their current lineup.

222 Top Division Goals, Three Hundred Twenty-Five Global Caps

The team Veterans Over 35s are situated in south the city and compete in the Cheshire-based Vets Division Premier Division.

The squad list this campaign boasts 9 former top-flight players, with a combined over 1,800 Premier League appearances.

This star-studded roster also boasts over 220 Premier League scores and 325 international appearances.

The squad feature Papiss Cisse, who netted thirty-seven scores in over 100 games for his former club after signing for them for nine million pounds from German league club SC Freiburg in 2012.

He had his debut for the team in their last home match against reigning champions Collegiate Old Boys and netted all six goals in a six-two win - featuring a 32-minute first-half hat-trick.

The team for this season also features former professionals such as English and Anfield striker Emile Heskey, Hull City and Burnley midfielder George Boyd, Toffees forward Oumar Niasse, Wigan full-back Maynor Figueroa, Manchester City pair Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and top-flight championship victors Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

In total, the former top-flight footballers have claimed 15 significant trophies and moved for combined transfer fees of about £123m.

Famous Figures and Global Stars

Ireland began playing for the team during preseason this summer through good mate and current Wythenshawe teammate Blake Norton, and the ex- Irish player then invited other ex-pros, who all play in a weekly small-sided game, to join in.

Ex- Senegal forward Niasse, who scored twelve goals in 65 Premier League games for the Toffees and even now goes to their home games, also made his debut against the opposition - who are based in Liverpool and wear an Everton warm-up gear as their strip.

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

"Then he informed me we were facing a side from Liverpool and the surprise I had when I noticed them sporting Everton shirts - I thought this is strange for me!

"If you still love football and you know you can still play, anywhere you can play, what are you going to choose?

"Those people who turn up and watch are pleased and to make someone's day if they watch us competing there and to pose us queries - it's really about the pleasure of us getting a place we can play, with structure of course."

So great is the squad depth at the club, he made his first game at full-back.

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

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

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

'Surreal Feeling

Along with the forward's 6 scores on debut, Stephen Ireland has scored 8 in three appearances for the side, while Boyd hit 5 on his debut appearance and Lescott, a defender by trade, notched a triple in one match as a striker.

Wythenshawe are top of the Premier Division with 3 victories from 3 and a goal difference of +19.

Paul Barrow, 38, who plays on the wing for the opposition, came up against former Wigan defender Maynor Figueroa on Sunday - and had to explain his young son who Emile Heskey was.

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

"The news was going round like a rumor they had these ex-Premier League stars," said the player.

"I felt I was a bit starstruck playing against Figueroa to be honest.

"Even Heskey got on and he's has over 60 England caps.

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

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

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

"Now we are eager for the second match."

'We'll Still Win the Title'

Andy Kirby coaches the Collegiate veterans side, who won the Premier Division title the previous campaign, along with Paul Maguire.

"We went 1-0 ahead and had a