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How do you improve a excellent experienced team who have won back-to-back titles, featuring a double triumph boasting 30 victories from thirty-two matches?

Recruit a group of former professionals who have played at the elite tier of club football and international soccer as you target more trophies.

A Manchester team boasts an amateur veterans team with 9 former Premier League footballers in their current roster.

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

The team Veterans Over 35s are situated in south the city and play in the Cheshire-based Vets Division Premier Tier.

Their squad list this season boasts nine ex- Premier League footballers, with a combined 1,801 top-flight games.

This elite roster also contains over 220 Premier League scores and 325 global caps.

The squad feature Papiss Cisse, who notched thirty-seven scores in 117 games for his former club after moving to them for nine million pounds from German league club SC Freiburg in 2012.

Cisse made his debut for the team in their last home match versus defending champions Collegiate Old Boys and netted all six scores in a six-two win - featuring a 32-minute first-half hat-trick.

Wythenshawe's roster for this season also features ex- pros such as England and Anfield forward Emile Heskey, Hull and Burnley FC winger George Boyd, Toffees striker Oumar Niasse, Wigan Athletic full-back Maynor Figueroa, Manchester City duo Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and Premier League championship victors Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

Collectively, the former top-flight footballers have won 15 significant honors and moved for total transfer sums of around £123m.

Well-Known Figures and Global Stars

Ireland started turning out for the team in preseason this summer through good mate and current team teammate Blake Norton, and the ex- Irish midfielder then asked other ex-pros, who all play in a midweek small-sided game, to join in.

Former Senegal forward Oumar Niasse, who netted 12 goals in sixty-five top-flight games for Everton and even now goes to their matches at Goodison Park, also made his first appearance versus the opposition - who are based in Liverpool and wear an Everton warm-up gear as their strip.

"A friend Stephen told me 'come and play, it's good fun'," said Niasse.

"After that he informed me we were playing 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 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 see are happy and to make someone's moment if they watch us competing there and to pose us questions - it's more like the pleasure of us getting a place we can play, with structure of course."

Such is the bench strength at Wythenshawe, he had his debut at defender.

"It's a little unusual but then, I enjoy running and just go inside - I'm not staying back that much," he said.

"I warn my defender 'I'm not hanging back' and that I'm just going to continue attacking.

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

Unreal Feeling

Along with the forward's six scores on his first game, Ireland has scored 8 in three appearances for Wythenshawe, while George Boyd scored 5 on his first match and Lescott, a centre-half by trade, scored a triple in one game up front.

The team are leading of the Top Tier with three wins from three and a GD of +19.

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

Figueroa has appeared at two global tournaments for his country, in addition to playing in over two hundred Premier League matches.

"It was spreading like wildfire they had all these former top-flight stars," said Barrow.

"I felt I was a little starstruck playing against Figueroa to be honest.

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

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

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

"The opponents were all friendly, shaking our hands after the game - it was like facing a bunch of regular fellas.

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

We Will Still Win the League'

The manager coaches the Collegiate veterans team, who won the Top Division title last season, together with Paul Maguire.

"We went one-nil up and had a