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How can you improve a stellar experienced side that have secured back-to-back titles, including a league-cup double with 30 victories from thirty-two matches?

Sign a collection of former pro players that have competed at the elite level of club football and international football as you target more honors.

A Greater Manchester team boasts an non-professional veterans squad with nine former Premier League footballers in their current lineup.

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

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

The roster this campaign includes nine ex- Premier League footballers, with a total over 1,800 Premier League matches.

This elite team also boasts 222 top division scores and over 320 international caps.

They feature one forward, who notched 37 goals in over 100 appearances for his former club after joining them for £9m from German league club Freiburg in 2012.

He made his debut for the team in their most recent home match versus reigning champions their rivals and netted all six goals in a six-two victory - featuring a half-hour first-half triple.

Wythenshawe's roster for this season also features ex- pros such as England and Liverpool forward Emile Heskey, Hull and Burnley FC winger George Boyd, Toffees striker Oumar Niasse, Wigan full-back Maynor Figueroa, Manchester City pair Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and top-flight championship winners Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

In total, the former Premier League footballers have won fifteen significant honors and moved for total transfer sums of approximately £123 million.

Well-Known Names and Global Stars

Stephen Ireland began playing for the side during preseason this season through good mate and current Wythenshawe teammate Blake Norton, and the former Republic of Ireland midfielder then asked additional ex-pros, who all play in a midweek small-sided match, to join in.

Ex- Senegalese forward Niasse, who scored twelve scores in sixty-five top-flight games for Everton and even now attends their matches at Goodison Park, also made his first appearance against Collegiate OB - who are located in the city and wear an Everton warm-up gear as their strip.

"My mate Stephen said 'join and play, it's a laugh'," said the striker.

"After that he informed me we were facing a side from the city and the shock I had when I noticed them sporting Everton shirts - I say this is wrong for me!

"If you still enjoy football and you feel you can still play, wherever you can play, what are you going to choose?

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

Such is the strength in depth at the club, Niasse had his first game at full-back.

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

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

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

Dreamlike' Feeling

In addition to Cisse's six goals on debut, Ireland has scored eight in three games for the side, while Boyd hit 5 on his debut appearance and Joleon Lescott, a centre-half by position, scored a triple in one match as a striker.

The team are top of the Premier Tier with three victories from three and a goal difference of plus nineteen.

One opponent, thirty-eight, who plays on the wing for Collegiate OB, faced former Wigan defender Maynor Figueroa on the weekend - and had to tell his young son who Emile Heskey was.

He has appeared at two global tournaments for Honduras, in as well as featuring in over two hundred Premier League matches.

"It was going round like a rumor they had these former top-flight players," said the player.

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

"Also Emile [Heskey] got on and he's got over 60 English caps.

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

"Our group literally haven't stopped talking about it - I was phoning my mother and sibling on the journey home.

"They were all friendly, shaking our hands after the game - it was like facing a group of regular fellas.

"Now we are eager for the second fixture."

'We'll Still Win the Title'

The manager coaches the Collegiate vets team, who won the Premier Division championship the previous campaign, together with his co-manager.

"Our team went one-nil ahead and had a