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What can you improve a outstanding veteran side who have won back-to-back titles, including a double triumph with 30 victories from thirty-two games?

Sign a group of ex- professionals who have played at the highest tier of club and global football as you aim for additional silverware.

A Greater Manchester side has an amateur veterans squad with nine former top-flight players in their present lineup.

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

The team Vets Over 35s are located in southern the city and play in the Cheshire Vets League Premier Tier.

Their lineup this campaign features nine former Premier League players, with a collective nearly 1,800 top-flight games.

The high-profile roster also includes over 220 Premier League goals and 325 international caps.

The squad include Papiss Cisse, who notched thirty-seven scores in 117 games for his former club after moving to them for £9m from German league side Freiburg in January 2012.

He had his first appearance for Wythenshawe in their last home match against defending title holders their rivals and netted all six goals in a 6-2 victory - including a half-hour opening period hat-trick.

The team for this season also features former professionals such as English and Anfield striker Emile Heskey, Hull and Burnley FC winger George Boyd, Everton forward Oumar Niasse, Wigan full-back Maynor Figueroa, Manchester City duo Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and Premier League championship victors Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

Together, the ex- top-flight footballers have secured 15 significant honors and transferred for combined transfer fees of around £123 million.

Household Names and International Players

Ireland started turning out for the team in preseason this summer through close mate and present team teammate Blake Norton, and the ex- Republic of Ireland player then asked additional ex-pros, who all play in a midweek nine-a-side game, to participate.

Ex- Senegalese striker Oumar Niasse, who scored twelve goals in sixty-five top-flight matches for the Toffees and even now goes to their home games, also had his debut versus Collegiate OB - who are based in the city and use an Everton training kit as their uniform.

"My mate Stephen said 'come and have a game, it's a laugh'," said Niasse.

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

"If you still enjoy the game and you feel you can still play, wherever you can kick a ball, what are you going to choose?

"Those people who turn up and watch are pleased and to give someone's moment if they see us competing there and to ask us queries - it's more like the pleasure of us getting somewhere we can play, with organisation of course."

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

"That's a little unusual but then, I enjoy running and just go inside - 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 attacking.

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

Dreamlike' Experience

In addition to Cisse's 6 scores on debut, Stephen Ireland has scored eight in 3 games for Wythenshawe, while George Boyd scored five on his debut appearance and Lescott, a defender by trade, notched a hat-trick in one match up front.

The team are leading of the Premier Division 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 ex- Latics full-back Maynor Figueroa on Sunday - and had to explain his nine-year-old boy who Heskey was.

Figueroa has played at 2 World Cups for Honduras, in as well as featuring in over two hundred Premier League matches.

"It was going round like a rumor they had all these ex-Premier League players," said the player.

"I felt I was a little awestruck playing against him to be honest.

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

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

"We literally haven't stopped chatting about it - I was calling my mum and sibling on the way home.

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

"Now we are eager for the second fixture."

'We'll Still Win the League'

Andy Kirby manages the opposition vets side, who secured the Top Division championship last season, along with his co-manager.

"Our team scored 1-0 ahead and had a