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What can you improve a outstanding veteran squad who have secured back-to-back championships, featuring a double triumph boasting thirty victories from 32 matches?

Bring in a collection of ex- professionals who have competed at the highest level of club football and global soccer as you target further trophies.

A Manchester side has an non-professional veterans squad with nine ex- top-flight footballers in their present squad.

Two Hundred Twenty-Two Top Division Goals, Three Hundred Twenty-Five Global Caps

The team Veterans Over-35s are located in south the city and compete in the Cheshire-based Vets League Premier Division.

The squad list this season includes 9 ex- Premier League footballers, with a collective 1,801 Premier League appearances.

This elite team also contains over 220 top division goals and over 320 international caps.

The squad feature one forward, who notched thirty-seven goals in 117 appearances for his former club after moving to them for nine million pounds from Bundesliga club SC Freiburg in January 2012.

Cisse had his debut for Wythenshawe in their most recent home match versus reigning title holders their rivals and netted all six goals in a 6-2 victory - featuring a half-hour first-half hat-trick.

Wythenshawe's squad for this campaign also features former pros such as England and Anfield forward Emile Heskey, Hull City and Burnley midfielder George Boyd, Toffees striker Oumar Niasse, Wigan Athletic full-back Maynor Figueroa, City pair Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and top-flight championship winners Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

In total, the ex- Premier League footballers have claimed 15 major trophies and moved for combined transfer fees of approximately £123 million.

Famous Names and International Stars

Stephen Ireland began playing for the side in pre-season this season through good friend and current team player Blake Norton, and the former Republic of Ireland midfielder then invited additional former professionals, who all play in a weekly small-sided match, to join in.

Former Senegal forward Niasse, who scored 12 goals in sixty-five top-flight matches for Everton and still attends their home games, also had his first appearance against the opposition - who are based in Liverpool and use an Blue warm-up gear as their strip.

"My friend Stephen Ireland told me 'join and have a game, it's good fun'," commented Niasse.

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

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

"The fans who turn up and see are pleased and to give someone's moment if they see us competing there and to pose us questions - it's really about the pleasure of us getting a place we can enjoy football, with structure of course."

Such is the bench strength at the club, Niasse had his debut at defender.

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

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

"That running is what I'm seeking. It's good fun."

'Surreal Experience

Along with Cisse's 6 scores on debut, Ireland has netted eight 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 game as a striker.

The team are top of the Top Division with three victories from 3 and a GD of plus nineteen.

Paul Barrow, thirty-eight, who plays on the wing for Collegiate OB, faced ex- Wigan full-back Figueroa on the weekend - and had to explain his young boy who Heskey was.

He has played at 2 World Cups for Honduras, in addition to playing in over two hundred Premier League matches.

"The news was going round like a rumor they had these ex-Premier League players," remarked the player.

"I think I was a bit starstruck playing against him to be honest.

"Even Emile [Heskey] got on and he's has 60-odd English appearances.

"We competed well for a good 20 minutes but then we had a player dismissed and it was hard.

"Our group literally have not ceased chatting about it - I was phoning my mother and sibling on the way home.

"The opponents were all really nice, shaking our hands after the match - it was like facing a group of normal guys.

"Now we are eager for the second fixture."

'We'll Still Take the League'

The manager manages the Collegiate vets side, who secured the Top Division championship last season, along with Paul Maguire.

"We went 1-0 up and had a