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How do you boost a excellent veteran squad that have won consecutive championships, featuring a double triumph with 30 victories from thirty-two games?

Bring in a group of former professionals who have performed at the top level of club and international soccer as you aim for additional honors.

One Greater Manchester side fields an amateur veterans team with 9 ex- top-flight players in their active squad.

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

The team Vets Over 35s are located in southern Manchester and play in the Cheshire Veterans League Top Tier.

Their roster this season boasts nine former top-flight footballers, with a total nearly 1,800 Premier League matches.

The star-studded squad also boasts 222 Premier League goals and 325 global caps.

They feature one forward, who scored thirty-seven goals in 117 games for his former club after moving to them for £9m from Bundesliga side SC Freiburg in 2012.

Cisse had his first appearance for Wythenshawe in their most recent home match against defending title holders their rivals and netted all six goals in a six-two win - including a half-hour first-half triple.

Wythenshawe's team for this campaign also includes former pros such as England and Liverpool forward Emile Heskey, Hull and Burnley FC winger George Boyd, Everton forward Oumar Niasse, Wigan defender Maynor Figueroa, City duo Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and top-flight title victors Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

Together, the former Premier League players have claimed 15 major honors and transferred for combined transfer sums of around £123 million.

Famous Figures and International Stars

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

Former Senegal striker Oumar Niasse, who scored twelve goals in 65 Premier League games for Everton and still goes to their matches at Goodison Park, also made his debut against Collegiate OB - who are located in Liverpool and wear an Everton warm-up gear as their uniform.

"A friend Stephen Ireland said 'come and play, it's enjoyable'," said the striker.

"After that he told me we were facing a team from Liverpool and the shock I had when I saw them sporting Everton shirts - I thought this is wrong for me!

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

"The spectators who turn up and see are happy and to give someone's day if they see us competing there and to ask us queries - it's really about the joy of us having somewhere we can enjoy football, with structure of course."

Such is the bench strength at the club, he had his first game at defender.

"That's a bit unusual but then, I love sprinting and just go inside - I'm not defending that much," he added.

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

"The movement is what I'm looking for. It's good fun."

Unreal Feeling

In addition to Cisse's six scores on his first game, Ireland has netted 8 in three appearances for Wythenshawe, while George Boyd scored five on his debut match and Lescott, a centre-half by position, scored a triple in one game as a striker.

The team are leading of the Premier Tier with three wins from three and a goal difference of +19.

One opponent, 38, who features on the flank for Collegiate OB, came up against former Wigan full-back Maynor Figueroa on the weekend - and had to explain his young boy who Heskey was.

Figueroa has appeared at two World Cups for his country, in addition to playing in more than two hundred top-flight games.

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

"I think I was a bit awestruck facing Figueroa to be honest.

"Also Heskey came on and he's has over 60 English appearances.

"Our side held our own for a good 20 mins but then we had a player dismissed and it was hard.

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

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

"Now we are eager for the second match."

'We'll Still Win the Title'

Andy Kirby coaches the Collegiate veterans team, who won the Premier Division title last season, along with his co-manager.

"Our team went 1-0 ahead and had a