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How do you boost a excellent experienced side that have won consecutive championships, including a league-cup double with thirty wins from thirty-two matches?

Recruit a raft of ex- pro players who have played at the top tier of club and global football as you target more silverware.

One Manchester team has an amateur veterans squad with nine former top-flight footballers in their present roster.

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

The team Veterans Over-35s are located in south Manchester and play in the Cheshire Veterans Division Premier Division.

The squad list this campaign features nine ex- Premier League players, with a combined over 1,800 top-flight matches.

The high-profile team also contains 222 Premier League goals and 325 global caps.

The squad include one forward, who scored thirty-seven goals in over 100 games for Newcastle United after signing for them for nine million pounds from Bundesliga club SC Freiburg in January 2012.

Cisse had his first appearance for the team in their most recent home game against defending champions their rivals and scored every one of the six scores in a 6-2 victory - featuring a 32-minute first-half triple.

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

In total, the former Premier League players have won fifteen significant honors and moved for total transfer sums of around £123m.

Household Names and Global Stars

Stephen Ireland started turning out for the side in preseason this season through close mate and current Wythenshawe player Blake Norton, and the former Irish player then asked additional former professionals, who all compete in a midweek small-sided game, to participate.

Ex- Senegalese forward Niasse, who netted twelve goals in 65 Premier League matches for Everton and still attends their home games, also had his first appearance against the opposition - who are located in the city and use an Blue warm-up gear as their uniform.

"A mate Stephen Ireland told me 'come and play, it's a laugh'," commented Niasse.

"After that he told me we were facing a side from Liverpool and the shock I had when I saw them sporting Blue shirts - I thought this is strange for me!

"If you still enjoy football and you feel you can still play, anywhere you can kick a ball, what are you going to choose?

"The fans who come and watch are pleased and to make a moment if they watch us competing there and to ask us questions - it's more like the pleasure of us having a place we can play, with organisation of course."

Such is the squad depth at the club, he had his debut at defender.

"That's a little different but then, I love running and just move inside - 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 continue running.

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

'Surreal Experience

In addition to the forward's 6 goals on his first game, Ireland has netted 8 in 3 games for the side, while George Boyd scored five on his debut match and Lescott, a centre-half by trade, scored a triple in one match as a striker.

Wythenshawe are leading of the Top Division with 3 wins from three and a goal difference of plus nineteen.

Paul Barrow, 38, who features on the flank for the opposition, faced former Latics full-back Maynor Figueroa on the weekend - and had to explain his young boy who Emile Heskey was.

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

"It was going round like a rumor they had these ex-Premier League players," said Barrow.

"I think I was a bit starstruck facing Figueroa to be honest.

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

"Our side competed well for a solid 20 mins but then we had a player sent off and it was hard.

"Our group really have not stopped talking about it - I was phoning my mum and brother on the way home.

"They were all really nice, shaking our hands after the game - it was like playing a bunch of normal fellas.

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

'We'll Still Win the League'

The manager manages the opposition veterans team, who won the Premier Division championship last season, together with Paul Maguire.

"We went one-nil up and had a