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What do you improve a excellent veteran squad that have claimed consecutive championships, featuring a league-cup double boasting 30 victories from thirty-two games?

Sign a collection of ex- pro players that have played at the highest level of club football and international football as you target further honors.

A Manchester side has an non-professional vets squad with 9 ex- Premier League footballers in their current roster.

Two Hundred Twenty-Two Premier League Goals, 325 Global Caps

Wythenshawe Veterans Over-35s are situated in southern the city and play in the Cheshire-based Veterans League Top Tier.

The squad list this season features nine former top-flight players, with a collective nearly 1,800 elite matches.

The star-studded squad also includes over 220 top division goals and over 320 international caps.

The squad feature one forward, who netted thirty-seven scores in 117 games for his former club after joining them for £9m from German league club SC Freiburg in January 2012.

He made his debut for the team in their most recent home match versus reigning title holders their rivals and scored all six goals in a six-two win - featuring a half-hour first-half hat-trick.

The team for this campaign also features ex- pros such as England and Liverpool striker Emile Heskey, Hull and Burnley FC midfielder George Boyd, Toffees striker Oumar Niasse, Wigan full-back Maynor Figueroa, Manchester City pair Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and top-flight title winners Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

In total, the ex- Premier League players have won 15 major honors and transferred for total transfer fees of approximately £123m.

Famous Figures and Global Players

Stephen Ireland began playing for the side during preseason this season through good mate and present team teammate Blake Norton, and the ex- Republic of Ireland player then invited additional ex-pros, who all play in a midweek nine-a-side match, to participate.

Ex- Senegalese striker Oumar Niasse, who scored twelve goals in 65 Premier League games for the Toffees and even now attends their home games, also made his debut against the opposition - who are based in Liverpool and use an Blue warm-up gear as their uniform.

"A mate Stephen told me 'join and have a game, it's good fun'," commented Niasse.

"After that he informed me we were playing a side from Liverpool and the surprise I had when I noticed them wearing Blue kits - I say this is strange for me!

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

"Those spectators 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 joy of us having a place we can enjoy football, with structure of course."

So great is the strength in depth at Wythenshawe, Niasse had his first game at defender.

"That's a little unusual but then, I enjoy sprinting and just move 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 seeking. It's good fun."

'Surreal Experience

Along with Cisse's six goals on his first game, Stephen Ireland has scored 8 in three appearances for Wythenshawe, while George Boyd scored 5 on his first appearance and Lescott, a centre-half by trade, notched a hat-trick in one game up front.

Wythenshawe are top of the Premier Tier with three wins from three and a goal difference of +19.

One opponent, 38, who plays on the wing for the opposition, came up against ex- Latics full-back Maynor Figueroa on Sunday - and had to explain his young son who Emile Heskey was.

He has appeared at two World Cups for his country, in addition to featuring in more than two hundred top-flight matches.

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

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

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

"Our side held our own for a solid 20 minutes but then we had a player sent off and it was tough.

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

"They were all really nice, shaking our hands after the game - it was like facing a group of regular fellas.

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

'We'll Still Win the Title'

The manager manages the opposition veterans side, who secured the Top Division championship the previous campaign, along with his co-manager.

"We went 1-0 up and had a