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What can you boost a stellar veteran squad who have won back-to-back championships, featuring a league-cup double boasting 30 victories from thirty-two matches?

Bring in a raft of ex- pro players that have performed at the highest level of club football and global soccer as you aim for additional honors.

One Manchester club has an non-professional veterans team with nine former top-flight players in their active lineup.

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

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

Their squad list this season includes nine former top-flight footballers, with a collective over 1,800 elite matches.

This star-studded team also includes 222 top division scores and over 320 international caps.

They feature Papiss Cisse, who scored 37 goals in over 100 appearances for his former club after signing for them for £9m from German league side Freiburg in 2012.

He had his debut for the team in their most recent home game against reigning champions Collegiate Old Boys and netted every one of the six goals in a 6-2 win - featuring a half-hour first-half hat-trick.

The squad for this campaign also features ex- pros such as England and Liverpool forward Emile Heskey, Hull and Burnley midfielder George Boyd, Everton forward Oumar Niasse, Wigan defender Maynor Figueroa, Manchester City pair Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and top-flight title victors Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

Together, the ex- Premier League footballers have won fifteen major trophies and moved for total transfer fees of approximately £123 million.

Household Figures and Global Stars

Stephen Ireland started playing for the team in preseason this season through close mate and current Wythenshawe teammate Blake Norton, and the former Irish midfielder then asked additional ex-pros, who all compete in a midweek nine-a-side game, to participate.

Ex- Senegalese striker Oumar Niasse, who scored twelve goals in sixty-five Premier League games for the Toffees and still goes to their matches at Goodison Park, also had his first appearance versus the opposition - who are based in the city and use an Everton training kit as their uniform.

"A friend Stephen Ireland told me 'join and play, it's a laugh'," said Niasse.

"After that he informed me we were playing a team from Liverpool and the surprise I had when I noticed them wearing Blue kits - I thought this is wrong for me!

"When you still love football and you feel you can still play, wherever you can kick a ball, what are you going to choose?

"Those fans who come and see are happy and to give someone's moment if they see us competing there and to pose us queries - it's more like the pleasure of us having somewhere we can play, with structure of course."

Such is the bench strength at the club, Niasse made his debut at defender.

"It's a bit unusual but then, I enjoy sprinting and just go inside - 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 keep running.

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

'Surreal Experience

Along with Cisse's six goals on debut, Stephen Ireland has scored eight in 3 appearances for Wythenshawe, while George Boyd scored five on his first match and Lescott, a defender by position, scored a triple in one game as a striker.

The team are top of the Premier Tier with three victories from three and a goal difference of plus nineteen.

Paul Barrow, 38, who features on the wing for Collegiate OB, faced ex- Latics defender Figueroa on the weekend - and had to tell his young boy who Emile Heskey was.

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

"It was spreading like a rumor they had all these ex-Premier League stars," said the player.

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

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

"Our side held our own for a solid twenty mins but then we had a man dismissed and it was hard.

"Our group literally haven't stopped talking about it - I was phoning my mother 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 regular guys.

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

'We'll Still Win the Title'

Andy Kirby manages the Collegiate veterans team, who secured the Premier Division title last season, together with his co-manager.

"Our team went 1-0 ahead and had a