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How do you boost a excellent veteran side who have secured consecutive championships, including a double triumph with thirty wins from thirty-two matches?

Bring in a collection of former professionals who have performed at the top tier of club and global soccer as you pursue more trophies.

One Greater Manchester team boasts an non-professional vets squad with 9 ex- Premier League players in their active roster.

222 Top Division Scores, Three Hundred Twenty-Five International Caps

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

Their roster this season includes 9 ex- Premier League players, with a combined 1,801 Premier League appearances.

This elite roster also boasts over 220 top division scores and 325 international caps.

They include one forward, who notched thirty-seven scores in 117 appearances for his former club after signing for them for nine million pounds from German league side Freiburg in 2012.

He made his debut for Wythenshawe in their last home-field match versus defending champions Collegiate Old Boys and scored all six goals in a 6-2 win - including a half-hour first-half triple.

The roster for this season also features former pros such as England and Anfield striker Emile Heskey, Hull City and Burnley midfielder George Boyd, Toffees forward Oumar Niasse, Wigan full-back Maynor Figueroa, City pair Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and top-flight title victors Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

In total, the ex- top-flight players have claimed 15 major honors and moved for combined transfer fees of approximately £123m.

Famous Figures and International Players

Ireland began playing for the side in pre-season this summer through close mate and present team player Blake Norton, and the ex- Republic of Ireland player then asked other former professionals, who all play in a weekly small-sided game, to join in.

Former Senegalese striker Niasse, who netted 12 goals in sixty-five top-flight matches for Everton and even now attends their matches at Goodison Park, also had his debut versus the opposition - who are located in Liverpool and use an Everton warm-up gear as their uniform.

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

"Then he informed me we were facing a side from the city and the shock I had when I noticed them sporting Everton kits - I say this is strange for me!

"If you still love the game and you feel you can still play, anywhere you can play, what are you going to choose?

"The people who turn up and watch are pleased and to make a day if they see us competing there and to pose us questions - it's really about the pleasure of us getting somewhere we can play, with organisation of course."

Such is the bench strength at Wythenshawe, he had his debut at full-back.

"That's a little different but then, I love running and just go inside - I'm not defending that much," he said.

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

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

Dreamlike' Experience

Along with Cisse's six goals on his first game, Stephen Ireland has scored eight in 3 appearances for Wythenshawe, while Boyd hit 5 on his first match and Lescott, a centre-half by position, scored a triple in one match as a striker.

The team are top of the Premier Division with three victories from three and a GD of +19.

Paul Barrow, 38, who plays on the flank for Collegiate OB, came up against former Latics full-back Maynor Figueroa on the weekend - and had to tell his nine-year-old boy who Emile Heskey was.

He has appeared at two global tournaments for his country, in as well as featuring in more than two hundred top-flight matches.

"It was going round like wildfire they had these former top-flight stars," said Barrow.

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

"Also Heskey came on and he's got 60-odd England caps.

"Our side held our own for a good 20 minutes but then we had a player sent off and it was tough.

"We literally haven't ceased chatting about it - I was calling my mum and sibling on the journey home.

"The opponents were all dead sound, shaking our hands after the match - it was like facing a group of regular guys.

"Now we can't wait for the return match."

'We'll Still Take the Title'

Andy Kirby manages the Collegiate veterans team, who won the Top Division championship last season, along with Paul Maguire.

"Our team went 1-0 ahead and had a