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What can you improve a excellent veteran team that have won back-to-back titles, including a league-cup double boasting thirty victories from 32 games?

Sign a group of former pro players who have competed at the top tier of club and international soccer as you target further silverware.

One Manchester team has an amateur veterans squad with nine ex- top-flight players in their present lineup.

222 Premier League Scores, Three Hundred Twenty-Five Global Caps

The team Vets Over 35s are located in south the city and play in the Cheshire Vets Division Top Tier.

Their lineup this campaign features 9 ex- top-flight footballers, with a collective nearly 1,800 elite matches.

The high-profile team also boasts over 220 Premier League scores and 325 international appearances.

They include one forward, who netted thirty-seven scores in over 100 games for Newcastle United after joining them for nine million pounds from Bundesliga side Freiburg in January 2012.

Cisse had his debut for the team in their most recent home match against reigning title holders their rivals and scored all six goals in a six-two victory - featuring a half-hour first-half triple.

Wythenshawe's team for this season also includes former pros such as English and Anfield striker Emile Heskey, Hull and Burnley midfielder George Boyd, Everton forward Oumar Niasse, Wigan Athletic defender Maynor Figueroa, Manchester City duo Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and top-flight championship winners Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

Collectively, the former top-flight footballers have won fifteen big trophies and moved for combined transfer fees of approximately £123 million.

Famous Names and Global Players

Ireland began playing for the team during preseason this season through good mate and current team player Blake Norton, and the former Irish player then asked additional ex-pros, who all compete in a midweek nine-a-side match, to join in.

Former Senegalese forward Niasse, who netted twelve scores in 65 Premier League games for the Toffees and still attends their home games, also had his first appearance versus the opposition - who are based in the city and wear an Blue training kit as their uniform.

"A friend Stephen Ireland said 'join and play, it's good fun'," commented the striker.

"Then he informed me we were playing a team from the city and the surprise I had when I saw them wearing Everton kits - I say this is wrong for me!

"When you still enjoy football and you know you can still do it, anywhere you can kick a ball, what are you going to choose?

"The people who come and watch are pleased and to give someone's day if they watch us competing there and to ask us questions - it's really about the pleasure of us getting a place we can play, with organisation of course."

Such is the strength in depth at the club, he made his debut at full-back.

"That's a bit unusual but then, I enjoy sprinting and just go forward - I'm not defending that much," he said.

"I warn 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."

'Surreal Scenario

Along with Cisse's 6 scores on debut, Ireland has scored eight in 3 appearances for the side, while George Boyd hit 5 on his debut match and Lescott, a defender by trade, scored a hat-trick in one game as a striker.

The team are top of the Top Tier with three victories from 3 and a goal difference of +19.

Paul Barrow, 38, who plays on the wing for Collegiate OB, came up against ex- Wigan full-back Maynor Figueroa on Sunday - and had to explain his young boy who Emile Heskey was.

He has appeared at 2 World Cups for his country, in addition to featuring in over two hundred top-flight games.

"The news was spreading like a rumor they had these ex-Premier League players," said Barrow.

"I think I was a little awestruck playing against Figueroa to be honest.

"Even Heskey came on and he's has 60-odd English caps.

"We held our own for a solid 20 minutes but then we had a man dismissed and it was tough.

"Our group really have not stopped chatting about it - I was calling my mum and sibling on the journey home.

"The opponents were all friendly, shaking our hands after the match - it was like playing a group of normal fellas.

"Now we can't wait for the return fixture."

'We'll Still Win the Title'

Andy Kirby coaches the Collegiate veterans side, who secured the Top Division championship last season, together with Paul Maguire.

"We scored 1-0 ahead and had a