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How do you boost a outstanding veteran squad that have secured consecutive championships, including a double triumph with 30 victories from thirty-two matches?

Sign a raft of ex- pro players who have played at the elite level of club and global football as you aim for more honors.

One Greater Manchester team boasts an amateur veterans squad with nine former top-flight footballers in their active lineup.

222 Premier League Scores, Three Hundred Twenty-Five Global Appearances

The team Vets Over 35s are located in southern the city and play in the Cheshire-based Veterans Division Top Tier.

The roster this campaign boasts nine ex- top-flight players, with a collective 1,801 Premier League matches.

This star-studded team also boasts 222 top division goals and 325 international caps.

They include one forward, who notched 37 goals in 117 appearances for his former club after moving to them for nine million pounds from German league club Freiburg in 2012.

He had his first appearance for Wythenshawe in their last home-field game versus defending title holders their rivals and scored all six goals in a six-two win - including a 32-minute opening period triple.

Wythenshawe's squad for this campaign also features ex- pros such as English and Anfield forward Emile Heskey, Hull City and Burnley winger George Boyd, Everton striker Oumar Niasse, Wigan Athletic full-back Maynor Figueroa, Manchester City duo Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and top-flight championship victors Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

In total, the former Premier League footballers have claimed fifteen significant honors and moved for combined transfer fees of approximately £123m.

Well-Known Names and International Players

Ireland started playing for the side during pre-season this season through close mate and current team player Blake Norton, and the former Republic of Ireland midfielder then asked additional ex-pros, who all compete in a weekly small-sided match, to join in.

Former Senegal forward Oumar Niasse, who netted twelve scores in sixty-five top-flight matches for Everton and still goes to their home games, also made his debut against the opposition - who are located in Liverpool and wear an Blue warm-up gear as their strip.

"A mate Stephen told me 'come and play, it's enjoyable'," said the striker.

"After that he informed me we were playing a side from Liverpool and the shock I had when I saw them wearing Everton shirts - I thought this is strange for me!

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

"Those spectators who come and see are pleased and to give a day if they watch us competing there and to pose us questions - it's really about the joy of us getting a place we can enjoy football, with structure of course."

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

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

"I warn my defender 'I'm not hanging back' and that I'm just going to keep running.

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

Dreamlike' Scenario

Along with the forward's 6 scores on debut, Stephen Ireland has netted eight in three appearances for Wythenshawe, while Boyd hit 5 on his first match and Lescott, a centre-half by position, notched a hat-trick in one match up front.

The team are leading of the Top Division with three wins from three and a goal difference of +19.

One opponent, thirty-eight, who features on the wing for Collegiate OB, faced ex- Wigan defender Maynor Figueroa on Sunday - and had to tell his nine-year-old son who Emile Heskey was.

He has played at two World Cups for his country, in as well as playing in over 200 Premier League games.

"It was going round like wildfire they had these former top-flight players," said Barrow.

"I think I was a bit starstruck facing him 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 player dismissed and it was hard.

"We really haven't stopped talking about it - I was phoning my mother and sibling on the journey home.

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

"Now we are eager for the return match."

We Will Still Take the League'

Andy Kirby coaches the Collegiate vets team, who won the Premier Tier championship last season, together with his co-manager.

"We scored 1-0 up and had a