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How can you boost a excellent veteran side that have won consecutive championships, featuring a double triumph boasting 30 wins from thirty-two games?

Sign a raft of ex- pro players that have competed at the top tier of club football and global soccer as you pursue additional silverware.

A Manchester side fields an non-professional vets team with nine former top-flight players in their current squad.

222 Top Division Goals, 325 Global Caps

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

Their roster this campaign includes 9 former top-flight players, with a combined 1,801 elite games.

The star-studded team also boasts 222 Premier League goals and over 320 global appearances.

The squad include Papiss Cisse, who scored 37 scores in over 100 games for Newcastle United after joining them for £9m from German league club Freiburg in January 2012.

Cisse made his debut for Wythenshawe in their last home-field game versus defending champions Collegiate Old Boys and netted all six scores in a 6-2 win - including a half-hour opening period triple.

The team for this campaign also includes ex- pros such as English and Liverpool striker Emile Heskey, Hull City and Burnley FC winger George Boyd, Toffees forward Oumar Niasse, Wigan Athletic full-back Maynor Figueroa, City pair Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and Premier League title winners Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

In total, the former top-flight players have claimed 15 big trophies and moved for combined transfer sums of approximately £123m.

Famous Names and Global Stars

Ireland started playing for the side during pre-season this season through good mate and current Wythenshawe player Blake Norton, and the former Republic of Ireland midfielder then invited additional ex-pros, who all compete in a weekly nine-a-side match, to participate.

Former Senegal striker Oumar Niasse, who scored twelve scores in 65 top-flight matches for Everton and even now goes to their matches at Goodison Park, also had his first appearance against the opposition - who are located in Liverpool and wear an Everton warm-up gear as their strip.

"A friend Stephen said 'come and have a game, it's enjoyable'," commented the striker.

"Then he told me we were facing a side from Liverpool and the shock I had when I saw them sporting Everton kits - I thought this is wrong for me!

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

"The spectators who turn up and see are happy and to give a day if they see us playing there and to pose us queries - it's really about the pleasure of us having a place we can enjoy football, with structure of course."

Such is the strength in depth at Wythenshawe, Niasse made his first game at defender.

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

"I tell my defender 'I'm not staying' and that I'm just going to keep attacking.

"The running is what I'm seeking. It's good fun."

Unreal Experience

In addition to Cisse's six scores on his first game, Ireland has netted 8 in three appearances for the side, while George Boyd hit five on his first match and Joleon Lescott, a defender by trade, scored a hat-trick in one game up front.

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

One opponent, 38, who features on the wing for Collegiate OB, faced former Wigan defender Maynor Figueroa on the weekend - and had to tell his young son who Heskey was.

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

"It was spreading like a rumor they had these former top-flight stars," remarked Barrow.

"I think I was a little awestruck facing him to be honest.

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

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

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

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

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

We Will Still Take the Title'

Andy Kirby manages the Collegiate veterans side, who won the Premier Tier championship last season, along with his co-manager.

"We scored 1-0 ahead and had a