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How can you boost a stellar veteran side that have secured back-to-back titles, including a league-cup double boasting thirty wins from thirty-two games?

Recruit a raft of former pro players who have competed at the top tier of club and global football as you aim for additional honors.

A Manchester team boasts an amateur veterans team with 9 ex- Premier League players in their current roster.

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

The team Veterans Over 35s are located in southern the city and play in the Cheshire-based Veterans League Premier Tier.

The squad list this campaign includes 9 former Premier League footballers, with a combined nearly 1,800 Premier League games.

The star-studded roster also includes 222 top division goals and 325 international caps.

The squad include Papiss Cisse, who notched 37 scores in 117 appearances for his former club after signing for them for £9m from Bundesliga club SC Freiburg in January 2012.

He had his debut for Wythenshawe in their most recent home-field game against defending title holders Collegiate Old Boys and scored all six goals in a 6-2 win - including a 32-minute first-half triple.

The roster for this campaign also features ex- professionals such as English and Liverpool striker Emile Heskey, Hull City and Burnley FC winger George Boyd, Everton forward Oumar Niasse, Wigan defender 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 players have secured 15 big trophies and moved for total transfer fees of about £123 million.

Well-Known Names and International Stars

Stephen Ireland began turning out for the side during preseason this season through good friend and present team teammate Blake Norton, and the former Republic of Ireland midfielder then asked additional ex-pros, who all play in a weekly nine-a-side match, to join in.

Former Senegalese forward Niasse, who netted 12 goals in 65 top-flight games for Everton and even now attends their home games, also made his debut versus the opposition - who are based in the city and use an Blue training kit as their uniform.

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

"After that he told me we were facing a team from Liverpool and the shock I had when I saw them sporting Blue kits - I say this is strange for me!

"When you still enjoy football and you know you can still play, anywhere you can kick a ball, what are you going to choose?

"Those spectators who come and watch are pleased and to give someone's day if they watch us playing there and to pose us questions - it's more like the joy of us getting a place we can play, with structure of course."

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

"It's a bit different but then, I enjoy sprinting and just move inside - I'm not defending that much," he said.

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

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

'Surreal Scenario

In addition to the forward's six goals on debut, Ireland has netted 8 in three games for Wythenshawe, while George Boyd hit five on his debut match and Joleon Lescott, a defender by position, scored a triple in one match as a striker.

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

Paul Barrow, 38, who plays on the wing for the opposition, faced former Latics full-back Maynor Figueroa on Sunday - and had to explain his young boy who Emile Heskey was.

Figueroa has played at two World Cups for his country, in as well as featuring in over 200 Premier League games.

"The news was going round like wildfire they had these ex-Premier League players," said Barrow.

"I felt I was a bit starstruck facing Figueroa to be honest.

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

"Our side competed well for a good twenty minutes but then we had a man sent off and it was hard.

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

"They were all really nice, shaking our hands after the game - it was like playing a group of normal guys.

"Now we are eager for the return match."

We Will Still Take the League'

Andy Kirby coaches the opposition vets side, who won the Premier Tier championship last season, along with his co-manager.

"Our team went one-nil up and had a