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How can you boost a stellar experienced side that have secured consecutive championships, including a double triumph with thirty wins from thirty-two matches?

Bring in a group of former professionals who have performed at the top level of club football and global soccer as you pursue additional trophies.

A Manchester club boasts an amateur vets team with nine former Premier League footballers in their present squad.

222 Premier League Goals, 325 Global Appearances

The team Vets Over 35s are located in south Manchester and compete in the Cheshire-based Veterans League Premier Division.

Their squad list this campaign features 9 former Premier League players, with a total nearly 1,800 Premier League appearances.

The star-studded roster also boasts over 220 Premier League scores and 325 global appearances.

They feature one forward, who netted thirty-seven goals in 117 appearances for Newcastle United after signing for them for £9m from German league club Freiburg in January 2012.

He had his debut for Wythenshawe in their last home match versus defending champions Collegiate Old Boys and scored every one of the six scores in a 6-2 victory - including a half-hour first-half triple.

The roster for this campaign also features ex- professionals such as English and Anfield striker Emile Heskey, Hull and Burnley FC winger George Boyd, Everton forward Oumar Niasse, Wigan Athletic defender Maynor Figueroa, Manchester City pair Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and Premier League title victors Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

In total, the former top-flight players have claimed 15 major honors and transferred for combined transfer fees of approximately £123 million.

Famous Names and International Players

Stephen Ireland started playing for the team in preseason this summer through close mate and present Wythenshawe player Blake Norton, and the ex- Republic of Ireland midfielder then invited other former professionals, who all compete in a midweek small-sided game, to participate.

Ex- Senegal forward Oumar Niasse, who scored twelve scores in sixty-five Premier League matches for the Toffees and even now goes to their matches at Goodison Park, also made his first appearance against Collegiate OB - who are based in the city and wear an Blue training kit as their uniform.

"My friend Stephen Ireland said 'join and have a game, it's good fun'," said the striker.

"After that he told me we were facing a team from the city and the surprise I had when I saw them sporting Everton shirts - I say this is wrong for me!

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

"The spectators who come and see are happy and to make a moment if they watch us competing there and to pose us queries - it's more like the pleasure of us getting somewhere we can play, with structure of course."

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

"It'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 running.

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

'Surreal Scenario

In addition to Cisse's six goals on debut, Stephen Ireland has scored 8 in 3 games for Wythenshawe, while George Boyd scored five on his first appearance and Lescott, a defender by trade, scored a hat-trick in one game as a striker.

Wythenshawe are top of the Top Tier with three wins from 3 and a goal difference of +19.

Paul Barrow, thirty-eight, who plays on the flank for the opposition, faced ex- Latics defender Maynor Figueroa on Sunday - and had to tell his young son who Emile Heskey was.

Figueroa has played at 2 World Cups for his country, in addition to featuring in more than two hundred top-flight matches.

"The news was spreading like wildfire they had these former top-flight players," said Barrow.

"I felt I was a bit awestruck facing Figueroa to be honest.

"Even Emile [Heskey] came on and he's got 60-odd English caps.

"We held our own for a good 20 minutes but then we had a man dismissed and it was tough.

"Our group really have not ceased talking about it - I was phoning my mother and sibling on the journey home.

"The opponents were all friendly, shaking our hands after the match - it was like playing a bunch of normal fellas.

"Now we are eager for the return match."

'We'll Still Win the League'

Andy Kirby manages the opposition vets team, who secured the Premier Tier title the previous campaign, together with Paul Maguire.

"We scored one-nil ahead and had a