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How can you enhance a excellent veteran squad who have won back-to-back titles, featuring a double triumph with thirty victories from thirty-two games?

Bring in a collection of ex- pro players who have played at the highest tier of club football and global soccer as you pursue additional trophies.

One Manchester club has an amateur vets squad with nine former top-flight players in their active roster.

Two Hundred Twenty-Two Top Division Scores, 325 International Appearances

Wythenshawe Vets Over 35s are located in south the city and compete in the Cheshire Vets Division Premier Division.

Their roster this season boasts 9 ex- Premier League players, with a collective over 1,800 top-flight matches.

This elite squad also includes 222 top division scores and 325 international caps.

The squad include Papiss Cisse, who notched 37 goals in 117 games for Newcastle United after joining them for nine million pounds from Bundesliga side Freiburg in January 2012.

He made his first appearance for the team in their most recent home match versus defending champions Collegiate Old Boys and scored every one of the six scores in a 6-2 victory - including a 32-minute opening period triple.

The squad for this season also includes former professionals such as English and Anfield forward Emile Heskey, Hull and Burnley midfielder George Boyd, Everton striker Oumar Niasse, Wigan defender Maynor Figueroa, City pair Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and top-flight title winners Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

Collectively, the ex- top-flight players have claimed 15 big honors and moved for total transfer sums of approximately £123 million.

Household Figures and International Players

Ireland started playing for the team during pre-season this summer through good mate and present team player Blake Norton, and the former Republic of Ireland midfielder then asked additional ex-pros, who all play in a midweek nine-a-side match, to participate.

Ex- Senegal forward Niasse, who scored twelve scores in 65 top-flight games for Everton and even now goes to their matches at Goodison Park, also had his first appearance against Collegiate OB - who are based in Liverpool and use an Blue warm-up gear as their strip.

"My mate Stephen said 'join and have a game, it's good fun'," said the striker.

"After that he told me we were playing a side from the city and the surprise I had when I noticed them sporting Blue kits - I thought this is wrong for me!

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

"Those people who turn up and see are happy and to give a day if they see us competing there and to ask us questions - it's really about the pleasure of us having somewhere we can play, with organisation of course."

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

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

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

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

Unreal Feeling

In addition to Cisse's six goals on his first game, Ireland has netted eight in 3 appearances for Wythenshawe, while Boyd scored 5 on his first match and Lescott, a defender by position, scored a triple in one match as a striker.

Wythenshawe are top of the Top Tier with 3 wins from 3 and a goal difference of plus nineteen.

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

Figueroa has appeared at 2 World Cups for Honduras, in as well as featuring in over two hundred Premier League games.

"It was spreading like wildfire they had all these former top-flight players," said Barrow.

"I felt I was a little awestruck facing him to be honest.

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

"Our side held our own for a solid 20 minutes but then we had a man sent off and it was tough.

"We really haven't ceased talking about it - I was phoning my mother and brother on the way home.

"They were all friendly, shaking our hands after the game - it was like facing a bunch of normal guys.

"Now we are eager for the return fixture."

We Will Still Take the League'

The manager manages the opposition vets side, who won the Premier Tier championship last season, together with his co-manager.

"We went one-nil ahead and had a