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What do you improve a stellar veteran squad who have won back-to-back championships, including a league-cup double boasting thirty victories from thirty-two games?

Bring in a collection of ex- professionals that have competed at the elite level of club football and global soccer as you target more silverware.

A Manchester side boasts an non-professional vets team with 9 ex- Premier League footballers in their present squad.

222 Top Division Goals, 325 International Appearances

The team Veterans Over 35s are based in southern Manchester and play in the Cheshire Veterans League Top Division.

Their lineup this season includes 9 former top-flight players, with a collective over 1,800 Premier League matches.

The star-studded squad also boasts over 220 Premier League goals and 325 international caps.

They include one forward, who scored thirty-seven scores in over 100 games for Newcastle United after signing for them for £9m from Bundesliga side SC Freiburg in January 2012.

Cisse made his first appearance for Wythenshawe in their last home game against defending champions their rivals and netted every one of the six goals in a 6-2 win - including a half-hour first-half triple.

Wythenshawe's team for this season also features ex- pros such as English and Liverpool forward Emile Heskey, Hull and Burnley FC midfielder George Boyd, Toffees striker Oumar Niasse, Wigan defender Maynor Figueroa, City duo Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and Premier League championship victors Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

Together, the former Premier League footballers have won fifteen significant honors and transferred for total transfer sums of approximately £123m.

Famous Names and Global Stars

Ireland started playing for the team in preseason this summer through close friend and current team teammate Blake Norton, and the ex- Irish player then asked additional former professionals, who all play in a midweek small-sided match, to participate.

Ex- Senegalese forward Oumar Niasse, who scored 12 scores in sixty-five top-flight games for Everton and still attends their home games, also made his first appearance versus the opposition - who are based in the city and use an Everton warm-up gear as their strip.

"My friend Stephen Ireland said 'come and have a game, it's good fun'," commented the striker.

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

"When you still love the game and you know you can still do it, wherever you can kick a ball, what are you going to do?

"Those spectators who come and see are happy and to make a moment if they watch us playing there and to ask us questions - it's really about the joy of us getting a place we can play, with organisation of course."

Such is the squad depth at Wythenshawe, he made his first game at defender.

"That's a bit different but then, I enjoy sprinting and just move inside - I'm not defending that much," he said.

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

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

Dreamlike' Scenario

In addition to the forward's 6 goals on his first game, Ireland has scored 8 in 3 games for the side, while George Boyd hit five on his first appearance and Joleon Lescott, a defender by position, notched a hat-trick in one match up front.

Wythenshawe are leading of the Premier Tier with three wins from three and a goal difference of plus nineteen.

One opponent, 38, who features on the flank for the opposition, came up against former Latics defender Maynor Figueroa on the weekend - and had to tell his young son who Heskey was.

He has appeared at 2 World Cups for Honduras, in addition to playing in more than two hundred top-flight games.

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

"I felt I was a bit starstruck facing him to be honest.

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

"We competed well for a solid twenty mins but then we had a player dismissed and it was hard.

"We literally have not ceased chatting about it - I was phoning my mum and brother on the journey 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 second match."

'We'll Still Win the League'

The manager coaches the opposition vets team, who won the Premier Division championship last season, along with his co-manager.

"Our team went 1-0 ahead and had a