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How can you boost a excellent veteran team who have secured back-to-back titles, featuring a double triumph with 30 wins from 32 games?

Bring in a raft of ex- professionals that have performed at the highest tier of club football and global football as you target more trophies.

One Manchester team boasts an amateur vets team with 9 ex- top-flight players in their current lineup.

222 Top Division Goals, Three Hundred Twenty-Five International Appearances

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

Their roster this campaign boasts nine former top-flight footballers, with a collective nearly 1,800 top-flight games.

This high-profile roster also boasts 222 Premier League goals and 325 global appearances.

The squad include Papiss Cisse, who notched thirty-seven goals in over 100 appearances for his former club after signing for them for nine million pounds from Bundesliga side Freiburg in January 2012.

Cisse made his first appearance for Wythenshawe in their last home match versus defending champions their rivals and netted every one of the six scores in a six-two victory - featuring a half-hour opening period hat-trick.

The squad for this campaign also features ex- pros such as England and Anfield striker Emile Heskey, Hull City and Burnley midfielder George Boyd, Everton forward Oumar Niasse, Wigan defender Maynor Figueroa, Manchester City duo Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and Premier League championship victors Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

In total, the former top-flight players have claimed fifteen major honors and moved for combined transfer fees of around £123 million.

Famous Figures and International Stars

Stephen Ireland started playing for the side during preseason this season through close friend and current team player Blake Norton, and the ex- Irish midfielder then invited additional ex-pros, who all play in a midweek nine-a-side game, to participate.

Ex- Senegal striker Oumar Niasse, who netted 12 scores in 65 top-flight games for Everton and still goes to their home games, also had his debut against Collegiate OB - who are based in the city and wear an Blue training kit as their uniform.

"A mate Stephen Ireland said 'come and play, it's a laugh'," commented the striker.

"Then he informed me we were playing a team from Liverpool and the shock I had when I saw them wearing Everton shirts - I thought this is strange for me!

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

"The fans who come and watch are pleased and to give someone's day if they see us competing there and to ask us queries - it's more like the joy of us getting a place we can play, with structure of course."

So great is the squad depth at Wythenshawe, Niasse had his debut at defender.

"It's a bit different but then, I enjoy running and just go forward - I'm not staying back that much," he added.

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

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

Dreamlike' Scenario

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

Wythenshawe are leading of the Premier Division with 3 wins from three and a goal difference of plus nineteen.

One opponent, 38, who plays on the flank for the opposition, faced ex- Latics defender Figueroa on Sunday - and had to tell his young son who Emile Heskey was.

He has appeared at two World Cups for his country, in addition to playing in more than two hundred Premier League games.

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

"I think I was a little starstruck facing him to be honest.

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

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

"We really have not stopped talking about it - I was calling my mother and sibling on the way home.

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

"Now we can't wait for the second match."

'We'll Still Take the Title'

Andy Kirby manages the Collegiate veterans team, who secured the Premier Division championship last season, together with his co-manager.

"We went one-nil up and had a