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How can you improve a excellent experienced team that have claimed consecutive championships, including a double triumph with 30 wins from thirty-two matches?

Recruit a collection of former pro players who have performed at the elite tier of club and international soccer as you target additional honors.

A Greater Manchester side boasts an amateur vets team with 9 ex- top-flight footballers in their present lineup.

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

The team Veterans Over 35s are situated in south Manchester and play in the Cheshire Vets Division Premier Division.

Their roster this campaign features 9 former Premier League players, with a combined 1,801 Premier League appearances.

The elite roster also includes 222 Premier League scores and 325 international caps.

The squad feature Papiss Cisse, who notched thirty-seven goals in 117 games for his former club after joining them for £9m from Bundesliga club SC Freiburg in January 2012.

He made his first appearance for the team in their last home-field game versus defending title holders Collegiate Old Boys and netted all six goals in a six-two win - featuring a half-hour first-half triple.

The roster for this campaign also includes ex- pros such as English and Liverpool striker Emile Heskey, Hull and Burnley FC winger George Boyd, Everton forward Oumar Niasse, Wigan Athletic full-back Maynor Figueroa, Manchester City duo Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and top-flight championship victors Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

In total, the former top-flight footballers have secured fifteen significant honors and moved for total transfer sums of about £123m.

Famous Figures and International Stars

Stephen Ireland began turning out for the team during pre-season this summer through close friend and present Wythenshawe player Blake Norton, and the ex- Irish midfielder then invited other former professionals, who all compete in a weekly nine-a-side game, to participate.

Ex- Senegal striker Oumar Niasse, who netted 12 goals in 65 Premier League matches for the Toffees and even now goes to their matches at Goodison Park, also made his first appearance against the opposition - who are located in the city and use an Blue training kit as their uniform.

"My mate Stephen Ireland told me 'join and play, it's enjoyable'," said Niasse.

"After that he told me we were facing a side from the city and the shock I had when I noticed them wearing Everton shirts - I thought this is wrong for me!

"If you still love football and you know you can still do it, anywhere you can kick a ball, what are you going to do?

"The fans who turn up and watch are happy and to make a moment if they watch us competing there and to pose us questions - it's more like the pleasure of us having somewhere we can play, with structure of course."

So great is the bench strength at the club, Niasse made his first game at full-back.

"It's a bit unusual 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 hanging back' and that I'm just going to continue attacking.

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

Unreal Scenario

Along with Cisse's 6 goals on his first game, Ireland has scored 8 in three appearances for the side, while Boyd scored 5 on his first match and Lescott, a defender by position, notched a hat-trick in one game up front.

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

One opponent, thirty-eight, who features on the flank for Collegiate OB, faced ex- Wigan defender Maynor Figueroa on Sunday - and had to explain his nine-year-old son who Heskey was.

Figueroa has appeared at two global tournaments for Honduras, in addition to playing in more than two hundred Premier League matches.

"The news was spreading like wildfire they had all these ex-Premier League stars," remarked the player.

"I think I was a bit awestruck playing against Figueroa to be honest.

"Even Emile [Heskey] came on and he's got over 60 English appearances.

"We competed well for a good 20 mins but then we had a player dismissed and it was hard.

"Our group literally haven't ceased chatting 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 facing a group of normal fellas.

"Now we are eager for the return fixture."

'We'll Still Take the Title'

The manager coaches the opposition vets side, who secured the Premier Tier championship the previous campaign, along with his co-manager.

"We scored 1-0 up and had a