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How can you improve a outstanding experienced side who have secured consecutive championships, including a league-cup double with 30 wins from 32 games?

Recruit a group of former professionals that have performed at the elite tier of club football and global football as you target additional honors.

One Greater Manchester team boasts an non-professional vets squad with nine former top-flight players in their current squad.

Two Hundred Twenty-Two Top Division Goals, 325 Global Appearances

Wythenshawe Veterans Over-35s are located in south the city and compete in the Cheshire Veterans League Top Division.

Their roster this season features 9 former top-flight players, with a total 1,801 elite games.

This elite roster also includes 222 top division goals and over 320 global caps.

They feature one forward, who scored 37 goals in over 100 games for his former club after moving to them for nine million pounds from German league side Freiburg in January 2012.

Cisse made his debut for Wythenshawe in their last home game against defending champions Collegiate Old Boys and scored all six goals in a six-two win - featuring a half-hour opening period triple.

Wythenshawe's team for this campaign also features former professionals such as English and Anfield forward Emile Heskey, Hull City and Burnley winger George Boyd, Everton striker Oumar Niasse, Wigan Athletic defender Maynor Figueroa, Manchester City duo Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and top-flight championship victors Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

Together, the former Premier League footballers have won fifteen major honors and moved for combined transfer sums of approximately £123 million.

Famous Names and Global Stars

Ireland started playing for the side during pre-season this season through good mate and present Wythenshawe player Blake Norton, and the former Republic of Ireland player then asked other former professionals, who all compete in a weekly nine-a-side game, to participate.

Ex- Senegalese striker Oumar Niasse, who netted 12 goals in sixty-five Premier League games for Everton and still attends their home games, also had his debut versus the opposition - who are based in the city and use an Everton training kit as their uniform.

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

"Then he told me we were playing a side from the city and the shock I had when I noticed them wearing Everton kits - I say this is wrong for me!

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

"Those fans who come and watch are happy and to make someone's day if they watch us competing there and to pose us questions - it's really about the joy of us getting a place we can play, with structure of course."

Such is the squad depth at the club, Niasse had his debut at defender.

"That's a little different but then, I love running and just move forward - I'm not staying back that much," he said.

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

"That movement is what I'm looking for. It's enjoyable."

'Surreal Scenario

In addition to the forward's 6 goals on his first game, Ireland has scored eight in three games for Wythenshawe, while George Boyd hit 5 on his first match and Joleon Lescott, a defender by position, scored a hat-trick in one match up front.

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

Paul Barrow, 38, who features on the flank for the opposition, faced former Latics defender Maynor Figueroa on the weekend - and had to explain his nine-year-old son who Heskey was.

He has played at 2 World Cups for Honduras, in addition to featuring in over 200 Premier League matches.

"The news was going round like a rumor they had these ex-Premier League stars," remarked Barrow.

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

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

"Our side competed well for a good 20 minutes but then we had a man dismissed and it was tough.

"We really haven't stopped talking about it - I was calling my mother and sibling on the way home.

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

"Now we are eager for the second fixture."

We Will Still Take the Title'

Andy Kirby manages the opposition vets side, who secured the Premier Division title the previous campaign, together with his co-manager.

"Our team scored one-nil up and had a