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What can you improve a excellent veteran side who have secured consecutive championships, including a league-cup double boasting 30 wins from thirty-two matches?

Bring in a raft of ex- pro players that have played at the elite tier of club and international football as you pursue further silverware.

One Greater Manchester team boasts an non-professional vets squad with nine ex- Premier League players in their active lineup.

Two Hundred Twenty-Two Top Division Goals, 325 International Caps

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

Their lineup this campaign features nine ex- Premier League footballers, with a total 1,801 elite matches.

The star-studded team also contains 222 top division scores and over 320 international appearances.

The squad feature Papiss Cisse, who scored 37 scores in 117 appearances for his former club after signing for them for £9m from Bundesliga side Freiburg in January 2012.

He had his first appearance for the team in their most recent home-field match against reigning champions their rivals and scored every one of the six scores in a six-two victory - including a half-hour opening period triple.

The team for this campaign also includes ex- pros such as English and Anfield forward Emile Heskey, Hull City and Burnley FC midfielder George Boyd, Toffees striker Oumar Niasse, Wigan Athletic full-back Maynor Figueroa, Manchester City pair Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and top-flight championship victors Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

In total, the ex- top-flight players have won 15 significant trophies and transferred for combined transfer fees of approximately £123m.

Well-Known Names and International Players

Ireland began playing for the side during preseason this season through close mate and present team player Blake Norton, and the ex- Irish player then invited additional former professionals, who all compete in a weekly nine-a-side game, to participate.

Ex- Senegalese striker Oumar Niasse, who netted twelve scores in 65 Premier League matches for Everton and even now goes to their home games, also made his first appearance versus Collegiate OB - who are based in Liverpool and use an Blue warm-up gear as their uniform.

"My friend Stephen told me 'join and play, it's good fun'," commented the striker.

"Then he told me we were playing a side from Liverpool and the surprise I had when I noticed them wearing Blue kits - I thought this is strange for me!

"When you still enjoy the game and you feel you can still play, anywhere you can play, what are you going to do?

"Those spectators who come and watch are pleased and to make someone's moment if they watch us competing there and to ask us queries - it's more like the joy of us getting a place we can enjoy football, with structure of course."

So great is the bench strength 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 staying back that much," he said.

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

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

Unreal Feeling

In addition to the forward's six goals on his first game, Stephen Ireland has netted eight in three appearances for the side, while Boyd scored 5 on his first match and Joleon Lescott, a centre-half by trade, scored a hat-trick in one game as a striker.

Wythenshawe are top of the Top Division with 3 wins from 3 and a GD of plus nineteen.

Paul Barrow, 38, who plays on the flank for the opposition, faced former Latics defender Figueroa on the weekend - and had to tell his young son who Heskey was.

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

"The news was going round like a rumor they had all these former top-flight players," remarked the player.

"I felt I was a little awestruck facing Figueroa to be honest.

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

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

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

"The opponents were all dead sound, shaking our hands after the game - it was like facing a group of regular guys.

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

'We'll Still Win the League'

The manager manages the opposition veterans side, who won the Premier Division championship last season, along with Paul Maguire.

"Our team went 1-0 ahead and had a