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What do you enhance a outstanding veteran team that have won back-to-back titles, including a double triumph boasting 30 wins from 32 matches?

Bring in a group of ex- pro players who have competed at the top tier of club football and international football as you aim for further trophies.

A Greater Manchester team fields an amateur vets team with 9 former Premier League footballers in their current roster.

Two Hundred Twenty-Two Top Division Scores, 325 International Appearances

Wythenshawe Vets Over 35s are situated in south the city and compete in the Cheshire Veterans Division Top Division.

The lineup this campaign includes 9 former top-flight footballers, with a total nearly 1,800 Premier League matches.

This elite team also boasts 222 Premier League scores and 325 international caps.

They feature one forward, who scored thirty-seven goals in over 100 games for Newcastle United after joining them for nine million pounds from German league side Freiburg in 2012.

Cisse made his first appearance for the team in their last home match versus reigning champions their rivals and netted all six scores in a 6-2 victory - including a half-hour opening period triple.

The roster for this season also features ex- professionals such as England and Liverpool striker Emile Heskey, Hull and Burnley winger George Boyd, Everton striker Oumar Niasse, Wigan Athletic defender Maynor Figueroa, City pair Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and Premier League championship winners Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

In total, the ex- top-flight footballers have secured 15 big trophies and transferred for total transfer fees of about £123 million.

Famous Figures and Global Stars

Ireland began playing for the side in pre-season this season through good mate and current team player Blake Norton, and the ex- Irish midfielder then asked other ex-pros, who all play in a midweek small-sided match, to participate.

Former Senegalese forward Niasse, who netted twelve goals in sixty-five top-flight matches for the Toffees and still attends their matches at Goodison Park, also had his debut versus the opposition - who are based in the city and use an Blue training kit as their strip.

"My friend Stephen said 'join and play, it's good fun'," commented the striker.

"Then he told me we were facing a side from the city and the surprise I had when I saw them wearing Everton shirts - I thought this is strange for me!

"When you still love the game and you know you can still play, anywhere you can kick a ball, what are you going to choose?

"Those spectators who turn up and see are pleased and to make someone's moment if they see us competing there and to pose us questions - it's more like the joy of us getting somewhere we can play, with structure of course."

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

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

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

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

Dreamlike' Feeling

In addition to the forward's 6 goals on his first game, Stephen Ireland has netted 8 in three appearances for Wythenshawe, while Boyd hit 5 on his debut appearance and Joleon Lescott, a centre-half by trade, scored a triple in one match up front.

The team are top of the Premier Division with 3 wins from 3 and a goal difference of plus nineteen.

One opponent, thirty-eight, who plays on the wing for the opposition, faced former Latics full-back Maynor Figueroa on Sunday - and had to explain his nine-year-old boy who Heskey was.

He has played at 2 World Cups for Honduras, in as well as featuring in more than two hundred top-flight matches.

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

"I think I was a little awestruck facing Figueroa to be honest.

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

"We held our own for a solid 20 mins but then we had a player dismissed and it was hard.

"Our group really haven't ceased talking about it - I was calling my mum and brother on the journey home.

"They were all friendly, shaking our hands after the match - it was like playing a group of regular guys.

"Now we are eager for the second match."

'We'll Still Win the Title'

The manager coaches the Collegiate vets team, who won the Premier Division title last season, along with his co-manager.

"Our team scored one-nil up and had a