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What can you boost a stellar veteran team that have won back-to-back titles, including a double triumph with 30 victories from 32 games?

Bring in a collection of ex- pro players who have performed at the elite level of club and global soccer as you target additional honors.

One Manchester side boasts an amateur vets team with 9 former Premier League players in their current squad.

222 Top Division Goals, 325 International Caps

Wythenshawe Vets Over-35s are based in south Manchester and compete in the Cheshire Veterans League Top Tier.

Their squad list this campaign features 9 former Premier League footballers, with a total over 1,800 top-flight appearances.

This elite squad also contains 222 top division goals and over 320 international appearances.

They feature one forward, who netted 37 scores in 117 games for Newcastle United after moving to them for £9m from German league club SC Freiburg in 2012.

Cisse made his debut for Wythenshawe in their most recent home-field game against defending champions Collegiate Old Boys and scored every one of the six goals in a 6-2 victory - featuring a 32-minute first-half hat-trick.

The team for this campaign also features former pros such as England and Anfield striker Emile Heskey, Hull City and Burnley midfielder George Boyd, Toffees striker Oumar Niasse, Wigan Athletic defender Maynor Figueroa, City duo Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and top-flight championship winners Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

Collectively, the ex- top-flight players have claimed fifteen big honors and transferred for total transfer fees of about £123m.

Household Figures and International Stars

Ireland started playing for the side during pre-season this season through close friend and present team player Blake Norton, and the ex- Irish midfielder then asked additional ex-pros, who all play in a midweek small-sided match, to participate.

Former Senegal striker Oumar Niasse, who netted 12 scores in 65 top-flight matches for Everton and even now attends their matches at Goodison Park, also made his first appearance versus Collegiate OB - who are located in Liverpool and wear an Blue training kit as their strip.

"A mate Stephen Ireland told me 'come and play, it's good fun'," said Niasse.

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

"When you still love the game and you know you can still play, anywhere you can play, what are you going to do?

"Those people who come and watch are pleased and to give someone's day if they see us competing there and to ask us questions - it's more like the joy of us having somewhere we can play, with organisation of course."

Such is the squad depth at the club, Niasse had his debut at full-back.

"It's a little unusual but then, I love running and just go forward - I'm not defending that much," he said.

"I tell my centre-back 'I'm not hanging back' and that I'm just going to keep running.

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

Dreamlike' Scenario

In addition to Cisse's six goals on his first game, Stephen Ireland has netted eight in 3 games for Wythenshawe, while George Boyd hit 5 on his first match and Joleon Lescott, a defender by trade, scored a triple in one match up front.

Wythenshawe are leading of the Top Division with three victories from 3 and a goal difference of +19.

Paul Barrow, thirty-eight, who plays on the wing for Collegiate OB, faced former Wigan defender Maynor Figueroa on Sunday - and had to tell his nine-year-old boy who Emile Heskey was.

He has played at 2 World Cups for Honduras, in as well as featuring in over 200 top-flight matches.

"The news was going round like wildfire they had these ex-Premier League stars," said Barrow.

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

"Also Heskey came on and he's got over 60 English appearances.

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

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

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

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

'We'll Still Win the League'

Andy Kirby manages the Collegiate vets team, who won the Top Tier title last season, together with his co-manager.

"Our team scored 1-0 ahead and had a