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How do you improve a outstanding veteran team who have won consecutive titles, including a double triumph boasting 30 victories from 32 games?

Recruit a collection of ex- professionals that have performed at the highest level of club football and global soccer as you target further trophies.

A Greater Manchester team has an amateur veterans team with 9 former Premier League footballers in their active squad.

222 Top Division Goals, Three Hundred Twenty-Five Global Caps

Wythenshawe Vets Over-35s are situated in southern the city and play in the Cheshire Veterans League Top Division.

Their roster this campaign includes 9 ex- Premier League footballers, with a total nearly 1,800 Premier League games.

The star-studded squad also boasts 222 Premier League goals and over 320 international appearances.

The squad include one forward, who netted thirty-seven scores in over 100 games for Newcastle United after joining them for nine million pounds from German league club Freiburg in 2012.

He had his first appearance for the team in their most recent home-field match against defending title holders their rivals and scored every one of the six goals in a six-two victory - featuring a 32-minute opening period triple.

The squad for this season also includes former pros such as English and Anfield forward Emile Heskey, Hull and Burnley FC winger George Boyd, Toffees forward Oumar Niasse, Wigan full-back Maynor Figueroa, City pair Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and Premier League championship winners Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

Together, the ex- top-flight footballers have won 15 major honors and transferred for total transfer sums of approximately £123 million.

Famous Names and International Players

Stephen Ireland started turning out for the side during preseason this season through good friend and present team teammate Blake Norton, and the former Republic of Ireland player then invited additional former professionals, who all compete in a weekly small-sided game, to participate.

Ex- Senegal striker Oumar Niasse, who scored 12 goals in 65 Premier League games for the Toffees and still attends their matches at Goodison Park, also made his first appearance against Collegiate OB - who are located in the city and wear an Everton training kit as their strip.

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

"Then he told me we were playing a team from Liverpool and the shock I had when I noticed them wearing Everton shirts - I thought this is wrong for me!

"When you still love football and you know you can still do it, wherever you can play, what are you going to do?

"The spectators who come and watch are happy and to make someone's day if they see us competing there and to ask us queries - it's really about the pleasure of us having somewhere we can enjoy football, with structure of course."

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

"That's a bit unusual but then, I love running and just go forward - I'm not staying back that much," he added.

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

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

Unreal Feeling

Along with the forward's 6 goals on his first game, Ireland has scored 8 in 3 appearances for Wythenshawe, while George Boyd scored 5 on his first match and Lescott, a defender by trade, scored a hat-trick in one match as a striker.

Wythenshawe are top of the Premier Division with three victories from three and a GD of plus nineteen.

One opponent, 38, who plays on the wing for the opposition, faced former Wigan full-back Figueroa on the weekend - and had to explain his young son who Heskey was.

He has played at two global tournaments for Honduras, in as well as playing in over two hundred Premier League matches.

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

"I felt I was a bit awestruck playing against him to be honest.

"Also Emile [Heskey] got on and he's has over 60 England appearances.

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

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

"The opponents were all friendly, shaking our hands after the game - it was like facing a bunch of regular guys.

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

'We'll Still Win the League'

The manager manages the opposition vets side, who secured the Premier Division title last season, together with his co-manager.

"We scored 1-0 ahead and had a