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What do you boost a stellar veteran team that have won consecutive championships, featuring a league-cup double with thirty victories from 32 games?

Bring in a raft of ex- professionals that have competed at the elite tier of club football and global football as you pursue additional silverware.

One Manchester club has an non-professional vets team with 9 former top-flight players in their current roster.

222 Premier League Goals, 325 International Appearances

The team Vets Over 35s are situated in south the city and play in the Cheshire Veterans Division Top Tier.

The roster this season boasts nine ex- top-flight players, with a combined nearly 1,800 top-flight appearances.

This star-studded team also includes over 220 top division goals and over 320 global appearances.

The squad include one forward, who netted 37 scores in 117 games for his former club after joining them for £9m from German league side SC Freiburg in 2012.

Cisse had his debut for Wythenshawe in their most recent home match against reigning champions Collegiate Old Boys and netted all six scores in a 6-2 victory - featuring a half-hour first-half hat-trick.

Wythenshawe's roster for this season also includes former professionals such as English and Liverpool forward Emile Heskey, Hull City and Burnley FC winger George Boyd, Toffees forward Oumar Niasse, Wigan Athletic defender Maynor Figueroa, City duo Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and Premier League title victors Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

Collectively, the ex- top-flight players have won 15 significant honors and transferred for combined transfer fees of about £123 million.

Household Names and Global Stars

Stephen Ireland began turning out for the side in pre-season this summer through good friend and present team player Blake Norton, and the ex- Irish player then asked additional former professionals, who all play in a midweek small-sided match, to join in.

Former Senegalese forward Niasse, who netted twelve scores in sixty-five Premier League games for the Toffees and even now goes to their home games, also made his debut against the opposition - who are located in Liverpool and wear an Everton training kit as their uniform.

"A mate Stephen said 'come and have a game, it's good fun'," commented the striker.

"After that he informed me we were playing a side from Liverpool and the surprise I had when I noticed them sporting Everton shirts - I thought this is wrong for me!

"When you still enjoy football and you feel you can still do it, anywhere you can kick a ball, what are you going to choose?

"Those fans who come and see are happy and to give a day if they see us competing there and to pose us questions - it's more like the pleasure of us getting somewhere we can play, with organisation of course."

Such is the bench strength at the club, he had his first game at full-back.

"It's a little different but then, I enjoy sprinting and just go forward - I'm not defending that much," he added.

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

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

Dreamlike' Feeling

In addition to Cisse's 6 scores on debut, Stephen Ireland has scored eight in 3 games for the side, while Boyd hit 5 on his first appearance and Joleon Lescott, a centre-half by position, notched a hat-trick in one match up front.

The team are leading of the Premier Tier with three wins from 3 and a GD of +19.

One opponent, 38, who features on the flank for Collegiate OB, faced former Latics defender Figueroa on the weekend - and had to explain his young son who Emile Heskey was.

He has appeared at two global tournaments for Honduras, in as well as featuring in over 200 Premier League matches.

"It was spreading like wildfire they had all these former top-flight stars," said the player.

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

"Also Heskey came on and he's has over 60 English caps.

"We held our own for a good twenty mins but then we had a man dismissed and it was tough.

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

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

"Now we are eager for the second fixture."

'We'll Still Take the League'

Andy Kirby manages the Collegiate veterans side, who won the Premier Division championship last season, together with Paul Maguire.

"Our team scored one-nil ahead and had a