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What can you enhance a outstanding experienced side that have won back-to-back championships, including a double triumph boasting 30 victories from thirty-two games?

Bring in a collection of former pro players who have competed at the highest level of club and global soccer as you pursue more trophies.

One Manchester club has an non-professional veterans squad with 9 former top-flight players in their current squad.

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

Wythenshawe Veterans Over 35s are situated in south the city and compete in the Cheshire Vets Division Premier Division.

The roster this campaign boasts nine former Premier League footballers, with a combined over 1,800 elite matches.

The high-profile roster also includes 222 Premier League goals and over 320 international caps.

The squad include one forward, who netted thirty-seven goals in 117 appearances for Newcastle United after signing for them for nine million pounds from German league side Freiburg in 2012.

He made his debut for Wythenshawe in their most recent home-field game versus defending champions their rivals and scored every one of the six scores in a six-two victory - featuring a half-hour first-half hat-trick.

The roster for this season also features former professionals such as England and Anfield striker Emile Heskey, Hull and Burnley FC winger George Boyd, Toffees forward Oumar Niasse, Wigan Athletic defender Maynor Figueroa, City pair Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and top-flight championship victors Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

Collectively, the former Premier League footballers have claimed 15 major trophies and moved for total transfer sums of approximately £123m.

Household Names and Global Players

Ireland started playing for the team in pre-season this season through good mate and present Wythenshawe player Blake Norton, and the ex- Irish midfielder then asked other ex-pros, who all compete in a midweek nine-a-side match, to participate.

Former Senegal forward Niasse, who scored 12 scores in 65 Premier League games for Everton and even now goes to their home games, also made his debut versus the opposition - who are located in the city and wear an Blue warm-up gear as their uniform.

"A friend Stephen said 'join and play, it's enjoyable'," said Niasse.

"Then he informed me we were playing a side from Liverpool and the shock I had when I saw them sporting Blue shirts - I say this is strange for me!

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

"Those spectators who turn up and watch are happy and to make a moment if they see us competing there and to ask us queries - it's really about the pleasure of us getting a place we can enjoy football, with organisation of course."

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

"That's a little different but then, I enjoy sprinting and just go inside - I'm not defending that much," he said.

"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."

'Surreal Feeling

In addition to Cisse's 6 goals on his first game, Stephen Ireland has netted 8 in three games for the side, while Boyd scored five on his first match and Lescott, a defender by trade, scored a triple in one match as a striker.

Wythenshawe are leading of the Premier Division with 3 wins from 3 and a GD of +19.

One opponent, 38, who features on the wing for Collegiate OB, faced former Wigan defender Maynor Figueroa on the weekend - and had to explain his young boy who Emile Heskey was.

He has played at 2 global tournaments for Honduras, in addition to featuring in over two hundred Premier League games.

"It was spreading like wildfire they had all these ex-Premier League players," remarked Barrow.

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

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

"Our side competed well for a solid 20 minutes but then we had a man sent off and it was hard.

"Our group literally haven't stopped chatting about it - I was phoning my mother and brother on the way home.

"The opponents were all dead sound, shaking our hands after the match - it was like playing a bunch of regular guys.

"Now we are eager for the second match."

'We'll Still Win the League'

The manager coaches the Collegiate vets team, who won the Premier Tier championship last season, together with his co-manager.

"We went 1-0 up and had a