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What can you improve a excellent veteran side that have secured back-to-back championships, featuring a double triumph with thirty wins from thirty-two games?

Recruit a collection of former professionals that have played at the elite tier of club football and global soccer as you pursue more honors.

One Manchester team boasts an non-professional vets squad with nine ex- top-flight footballers in their current squad.

222 Top Division Scores, 325 International Appearances

The team Veterans Over-35s are located in south the city and play in the Cheshire Vets League Top Division.

Their squad list this season includes 9 ex- Premier League footballers, with a total over 1,800 top-flight games.

This elite team also includes over 220 top division goals and over 320 global caps.

They feature one forward, who netted thirty-seven goals in 117 appearances for Newcastle United after moving to them for £9m from Bundesliga club Freiburg in January 2012.

Cisse made his first appearance for the team in their last home-field game versus defending champions Collegiate Old Boys and netted every one of the six goals in a six-two win - including a 32-minute opening period triple.

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

Together, the ex- top-flight players have won fifteen significant trophies and moved for combined transfer sums of around £123m.

Well-Known Names and International Players

Ireland started turning out for the side during pre-season this season through good mate and current team teammate Blake Norton, and the ex- Irish midfielder then invited additional former professionals, who all play in a weekly nine-a-side game, to participate.

Former Senegal striker Niasse, who scored 12 goals in sixty-five top-flight games for the Toffees and still goes to their home games, also had his first appearance against Collegiate OB - who are based in the city and wear an Blue training kit as their strip.

"My mate Stephen Ireland said 'join and have a game, it's enjoyable'," said Niasse.

"After that he informed me we were playing a team from the city and the shock I had when I saw them sporting Blue shirts - I thought this is wrong for me!

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

"The fans who come and see are pleased and to make a moment if they watch us playing there and to ask us questions - it's really about the pleasure of us having a place we can enjoy football, with organisation of course."

So great is the strength in depth at Wythenshawe, he had his debut at full-back.

"It's a little different but then, I love running and just move inside - I'm not defending that much," he added.

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

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

Dreamlike' Experience

Along with the forward's six scores on his first game, Ireland has scored 8 in 3 appearances for Wythenshawe, while Boyd hit five on his first match and Lescott, a centre-half by position, notched 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, 38, who plays on the flank for the opposition, came up against former Wigan full-back Maynor Figueroa on the weekend - and had to tell his nine-year-old boy who Heskey was.

He has appeared at two global tournaments for his country, in addition to playing in more than two hundred Premier League matches.

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

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

"Also Emile [Heskey] came on and he's got 60-odd English caps.

"Our side held our own for a good twenty minutes but then we had a player dismissed and it was hard.

"Our group literally haven't stopped talking about it - I was calling my mum and brother on the way home.

"The opponents were all really nice, shaking our hands after the game - it was like facing a group of normal fellas.

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

We Will Still Take the Title'

The manager coaches the opposition vets team, who won the Premier Tier title the previous campaign, along with Paul Maguire.

"We scored 1-0 ahead and had a