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How can you enhance a outstanding veteran team that have won consecutive championships, featuring a double triumph with thirty victories from 32 games?

Bring in a group of ex- pro players that have played at the top level of club football and international football as you aim for additional honors.

One Manchester club has an amateur veterans team with 9 ex- top-flight footballers in their present lineup.

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

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

The lineup this season boasts 9 ex- Premier League players, with a total over 1,800 top-flight appearances.

The high-profile team also contains 222 top division goals and 325 international caps.

The squad feature Papiss Cisse, who scored 37 scores in 117 games for his former club after joining them for £9m from Bundesliga club Freiburg in 2012.

Cisse made his first appearance for Wythenshawe in their most recent home-field game against defending title holders their rivals and netted every one of the six scores in a 6-2 win - including a 32-minute first-half triple.

The team for this campaign also includes ex- professionals such as English and Anfield striker Emile Heskey, Hull City and Burnley FC midfielder George Boyd, Everton forward Oumar Niasse, Wigan defender Maynor Figueroa, City duo Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and top-flight championship winners Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

In total, the former top-flight players have won 15 significant honors and transferred for combined transfer sums of around £123 million.

Famous Figures and Global Players

Ireland began turning out for the team in pre-season this summer through good friend and present team player Blake Norton, and the ex- Irish player then asked additional former professionals, who all compete in a midweek small-sided match, to join in.

Ex- Senegal striker Oumar Niasse, who scored 12 scores in sixty-five Premier League games for Everton and even now goes to their home games, also made his debut against Collegiate OB - who are located in the city and wear an Everton warm-up gear as their strip.

"My mate Stephen Ireland said 'come and have a game, it's good fun'," said the striker.

"Then he told me we were playing a team from the city and the shock I had when I saw them wearing Blue shirts - I say this is wrong for me!

"If you still enjoy football and you feel you can still do it, wherever you can play, what are you going to choose?

"Those people who turn up and see are pleased and to make a moment if they watch us competing there and to ask us questions - it's more like the joy of us getting somewhere we can enjoy football, with structure of course."

So great is the bench strength at Wythenshawe, Niasse made his first game at defender.

"It's a little different but then, I enjoy running and just go forward - I'm not defending that much," he said.

"I warn my centre-back 'I'm not staying' and that I'm just going to continue attacking.

"That running is what I'm looking for. It's enjoyable."

'Surreal Experience

In addition to the forward's six scores on debut, Ireland has scored 8 in three appearances for Wythenshawe, while George Boyd hit five on his first match and Lescott, a centre-half by trade, notched a hat-trick in one match up front.

Wythenshawe are leading of the Top Division with 3 wins from 3 and a goal difference of +19.

Paul Barrow, 38, who plays on the wing for the opposition, came up against ex- Wigan full-back Maynor Figueroa on the weekend - and had to explain his nine-year-old son who Heskey was.

Figueroa has played at 2 World Cups for Honduras, in as well as playing in over 200 top-flight games.

"It was going round like wildfire they had these former top-flight players," said the player.

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

"Even Heskey got on and he's got 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 literally have not ceased chatting about it - I was phoning my mother and sibling on the journey home.

"The opponents were all really nice, shaking our hands after the match - it was like playing a bunch of regular fellas.

"Now we are eager for the return match."

'We'll Still Win the Title'

The manager manages the opposition veterans team, who won the Top Division title the previous campaign, along with Paul Maguire.

"We went one-nil up and had a