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What can you boost a outstanding experienced team that have claimed consecutive championships, including a league-cup double with thirty victories from thirty-two games?

Recruit a raft of ex- professionals who have competed at the elite tier of club and international soccer as you target further honors.

One Greater Manchester club has an non-professional veterans team with 9 former Premier League footballers in their active squad.

Two Hundred Twenty-Two Premier League Scores, Three Hundred Twenty-Five Global Appearances

The team Vets Over 35s are located in southern the city and compete in the Cheshire Vets Division Top Tier.

Their squad list this campaign includes 9 former top-flight footballers, with a total 1,801 elite matches.

The star-studded team also boasts 222 top division goals and over 320 global appearances.

The squad include one forward, who scored 37 scores in 117 games for his former club after signing for them for £9m from German league club SC Freiburg in January 2012.

He had his first appearance for the team in their last home-field match against defending title holders Collegiate Old Boys and netted every one of the six scores in a six-two win - featuring a half-hour opening period hat-trick.

Wythenshawe's roster for this campaign also features former professionals such as England and Liverpool striker Emile Heskey, Hull and Burnley FC midfielder George Boyd, Toffees striker Oumar Niasse, Wigan Athletic defender Maynor Figueroa, Manchester City duo Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and top-flight title winners Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

In total, the ex- top-flight players have won 15 significant honors and transferred for total transfer fees of around £123m.

Household Names and International Players

Stephen Ireland started playing for the team during pre-season this summer through good friend and current team teammate Blake Norton, and the ex- Irish player then invited other ex-pros, who all compete in a weekly nine-a-side match, to join in.

Former Senegal forward Niasse, who scored 12 scores in sixty-five top-flight games for Everton and even now attends their matches at Goodison Park, also had his debut against the opposition - who are located in Liverpool and use an Blue warm-up gear as their strip.

"My friend Stephen said 'come and play, it's good fun'," said Niasse.

"Then he informed me we were playing a side from Liverpool and the shock I had when I saw them sporting Everton kits - I thought this is strange for me!

"If you still love football and you know you can still play, wherever you can play, what are you going to choose?

"The spectators who come and see are happy and to make someone's moment if they watch us playing there and to ask us questions - it's really about the pleasure of us getting somewhere we can play, with organisation of course."

So great is the bench strength at Wythenshawe, Niasse had his debut at defender.

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

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

"The running is what I'm looking for. It's good fun."

Dreamlike' Scenario

In addition to Cisse's 6 goals on his first game, Ireland has netted eight in three appearances for Wythenshawe, while George Boyd hit 5 on his first match and Lescott, a centre-half by trade, scored a triple in one game as a striker.

The team are top of the Top Division with 3 victories from three and a goal difference of +19.

One opponent, 38, who features on the flank for the opposition, faced former Latics full-back Maynor Figueroa on Sunday - and had to explain his young son who Emile Heskey was.

Figueroa has appeared at two World Cups for Honduras, in as well as playing in over 200 top-flight matches.

"It was spreading like a rumor they had these ex-Premier League stars," said Barrow.

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

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

"We competed well for a good twenty mins but then we had a player sent off and it was tough.

"Our group literally have not stopped talking about it - I was phoning my mum and brother on the way home.

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

"Now we are eager for the second fixture."

We Will Still Win the Title'

The manager manages the Collegiate vets team, who secured the Top Tier championship last season, together with Paul Maguire.

"Our team scored 1-0 up and had a