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How do you boost a excellent experienced side who have secured back-to-back titles, featuring a double triumph with 30 victories from 32 games?

Recruit a raft of former professionals that have performed at the highest tier of club and international football as you pursue additional silverware.

One Manchester team boasts an amateur vets team with 9 ex- Premier League footballers in their active squad.

222 Top Division Scores, 325 Global Appearances

The team Veterans Over-35s are situated in south the city and compete in the Cheshire-based Veterans Division Premier Division.

Their lineup this season features nine ex- Premier League players, with a combined nearly 1,800 top-flight games.

The star-studded squad also boasts 222 Premier League goals and 325 international appearances.

The squad feature one forward, who notched 37 scores in over 100 games for his former club after joining them for nine million pounds from Bundesliga club SC Freiburg in January 2012.

He had his debut for Wythenshawe in their last home-field match versus reigning title holders their rivals and scored all six scores in a 6-2 win - including a half-hour opening period hat-trick.

The roster for this campaign also includes former pros such as England and Anfield striker Emile Heskey, Hull City and Burnley FC midfielder George Boyd, Toffees forward Oumar Niasse, Wigan Athletic full-back Maynor Figueroa, Manchester City duo Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and Premier League championship winners Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

Collectively, the ex- top-flight footballers have won 15 significant honors and moved for total transfer fees of about £123 million.

Well-Known Names and Global Players

Ireland began turning out for the team during pre-season this season through close mate and present team teammate Blake Norton, and the former Irish midfielder then invited additional ex-pros, who all play in a weekly nine-a-side match, to participate.

Former Senegalese striker Niasse, who scored 12 goals in 65 Premier League matches for the Toffees and even now attends their home games, also made his first appearance against the opposition - who are based in the city and wear an Blue training kit as their uniform.

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

"After that he told me we were playing a side from Liverpool and the shock I had when I saw them sporting Everton shirts - I say this is wrong for me!

"If you still enjoy the game and you know you can still play, wherever you can play, what are you going to choose?

"Those spectators who come and see are happy and to make a moment if they watch us playing there and to ask us queries - it's really about the joy of us getting somewhere we can enjoy football, with structure of course."

So great is the strength in depth at the club, Niasse had his first game at full-back.

"That's a little unusual but then, I enjoy sprinting and just go inside - I'm not defending that much," he said.

"I warn 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."

Unreal Feeling

In addition to the forward's six goals on debut, Ireland has scored 8 in three appearances for the side, while George Boyd hit five on his first appearance and Joleon Lescott, a defender by trade, notched a triple in one game as a striker.

Wythenshawe are leading of the Top Division with 3 victories from 3 and a GD of plus nineteen.

One opponent, 38, who features on the wing for the opposition, came up against former Latics full-back Figueroa on the weekend - and had to tell his young boy who Emile Heskey was.

Figueroa has played at two World Cups for his country, in addition to playing in more than 200 Premier League games.

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

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

"Even Emile [Heskey] came on and he's has 60-odd England appearances.

"We held our own for a good twenty minutes but then we had a player sent off and it was hard.

"We really haven't ceased chatting about it - I was phoning my mother and sibling on the way home.

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

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

We Will Still Win the League'

The manager manages the Collegiate vets team, who won the Top Tier championship last season, along with Paul Maguire.

"We scored 1-0 ahead and had a