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What can you boost a outstanding veteran team who have won consecutive titles, featuring a league-cup double with thirty victories from thirty-two matches?

Bring in a group of former professionals who have played at the elite level of club football and international football as you aim for further honors.

A Greater Manchester side boasts an non-professional veterans team with nine ex- Premier League players in their active roster.

Two Hundred Twenty-Two Premier League Goals, Three Hundred Twenty-Five International Caps

Wythenshawe Veterans Over 35s are located in southern Manchester and play in the Cheshire Vets Division Premier Tier.

The roster this campaign features 9 former top-flight footballers, with a collective nearly 1,800 elite games.

The star-studded squad also includes 222 top division scores and over 320 international appearances.

The squad feature one forward, who notched 37 goals in 117 games for Newcastle United after joining them for nine million pounds from German league club SC Freiburg in January 2012.

Cisse made his first appearance for the team in their most recent home-field match versus defending champions Collegiate Old Boys and netted every one of the six goals in a six-two win - featuring a half-hour first-half triple.

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

Together, the ex- top-flight players have won 15 big trophies and transferred for total transfer fees of about £123m.

Famous Names and Global Stars

Stephen Ireland started playing for the side during pre-season this season through close mate and current Wythenshawe teammate Blake Norton, and the former Republic of Ireland midfielder then invited additional former professionals, who all play in a weekly small-sided match, to join in.

Ex- Senegalese forward Niasse, who netted twelve scores in sixty-five Premier League games for the Toffees and even now goes to their matches at Goodison Park, also had his first appearance against Collegiate OB - who are located in the city and wear an Everton warm-up gear as their strip.

"My friend Stephen Ireland told me 'come and play, it's enjoyable'," said Niasse.

"Then he informed me we were facing a side from Liverpool and the surprise I had when I noticed them wearing Blue kits - I thought this is strange for me!

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

"Those people who turn up and watch are pleased and to make someone's moment if they see us playing there and to pose us questions - it's more like the pleasure of us having somewhere we can play, with structure of course."

Such is the strength in depth at Wythenshawe, Niasse made his first game at full-back.

"It's a little unusual but then, I enjoy sprinting and just move forward - I'm not staying back that much," he added.

"I warn my defender 'I'm not staying' and that I'm just going to continue running.

"The running is what I'm after. It's enjoyable."

Unreal Scenario

In addition to Cisse's six goals on debut, Ireland has netted 8 in 3 games for Wythenshawe, while Boyd scored 5 on his debut match and Joleon Lescott, a defender by position, notched a hat-trick in one game up front.

The team are leading of the Top Division with 3 victories from three and a goal difference of plus nineteen.

One opponent, thirty-eight, who features on the flank for Collegiate OB, came up against ex- Wigan defender Figueroa on the weekend - and had to tell his nine-year-old boy who Emile Heskey was.

Figueroa has appeared at two World Cups for Honduras, in as well as playing in over two hundred top-flight games.

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

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

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

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

"Our group literally have not stopped talking about it - I was calling my mother and brother on the journey home.

"They were all dead sound, shaking our hands after the match - it was like facing a bunch of normal guys.

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

'We'll Still Win the League'

Andy Kirby coaches the opposition veterans side, who won the Top Tier title the previous campaign, together with his co-manager.

"We went 1-0 up and had a