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How do you boost a stellar veteran squad who have won back-to-back championships, featuring a league-cup double boasting 30 wins from 32 games?

Sign a group of former pro players who have played at the top tier of club and global football as you aim for further trophies.

One Greater Manchester club boasts an amateur veterans squad with nine former top-flight footballers in their present squad.

222 Premier League Goals, 325 Global Caps

The team Veterans Over-35s are based in south Manchester and play in the Cheshire Veterans League Top Division.

Their roster this campaign boasts 9 former top-flight footballers, with a total over 1,800 top-flight matches.

This elite roster also includes over 220 top division goals and 325 international caps.

They feature one forward, who notched thirty-seven scores in 117 appearances for Newcastle United after moving to them for £9m from Bundesliga club SC Freiburg in January 2012.

Cisse made his debut for the team in their last home-field game versus reigning title holders Collegiate Old Boys and netted every one of the six scores in a six-two win - including a half-hour opening period triple.

The team for this season also features ex- pros such as England and Anfield striker Emile Heskey, Hull City and Burnley FC midfielder George Boyd, Everton forward Oumar Niasse, Wigan defender Maynor Figueroa, City pair Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and top-flight championship victors Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

Together, the ex- Premier League players have claimed 15 significant trophies and transferred for total transfer sums of around £123 million.

Household Figures and International Players

Ireland started turning out for the team during preseason this summer through good mate and present Wythenshawe player Blake Norton, and the former Irish midfielder then asked additional former professionals, who all play in a midweek small-sided match, to participate.

Former Senegal forward Niasse, who scored 12 scores in 65 Premier League matches for the Toffees and even now goes to their matches at Goodison Park, also had his debut against Collegiate OB - who are located in Liverpool and wear an Blue training kit as their uniform.

"My mate Stephen said 'join and play, it's enjoyable'," commented Niasse.

"Then he informed me we were playing a team from the city and the shock I had when I noticed them wearing Everton kits - I say this is wrong for me!

"If you still love the game and you know you can still do it, wherever you can kick a ball, what are you going to choose?

"The people who turn up and watch are pleased and to give a moment if they see us playing there and to ask us queries - it's really about the joy of us having a place we can enjoy football, with structure of course."

So great is the strength in depth at Wythenshawe, he had his first game at full-back.

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

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

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

Dreamlike' Feeling

Along with Cisse's six scores on his first game, Ireland has netted 8 in 3 games for Wythenshawe, while Boyd scored 5 on his first match and Joleon Lescott, a centre-half by position, scored a triple in one game as a striker.

Wythenshawe are leading of the Premier Tier with 3 victories from 3 and a GD of plus nineteen.

One opponent, 38, who features on the wing for the opposition, faced ex- Wigan full-back Maynor Figueroa on Sunday - and had to explain his nine-year-old son who Emile Heskey was.

Figueroa has appeared at 2 global tournaments for his country, in as well as featuring in more than 200 Premier League matches.

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

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

"Also Heskey came on and he's got 60-odd English caps.

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

"Our group literally have not ceased talking about it - I was calling my mother and sibling on the journey home.

"They were all dead sound, shaking our hands after the game - it was like playing a group of regular fellas.

"Now we are eager for the second match."

'We'll Still Take the Title'

The manager coaches the opposition vets team, who won the Top Division title the previous campaign, together with his co-manager.

"We went 1-0 up and had a