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How can you enhance a outstanding experienced team who have secured back-to-back championships, featuring a double triumph with thirty victories from 32 games?

Sign a raft of former pro players that have performed at the top level of club and global soccer as you aim for more silverware.

One Greater Manchester club boasts an amateur veterans team with 9 former top-flight players in their active roster.

Two Hundred Twenty-Two Top Division Scores, Three Hundred Twenty-Five International Appearances

The team Veterans Over-35s are situated in southern the city and play in the Cheshire Veterans Division Top Division.

Their roster this campaign boasts 9 former top-flight footballers, with a collective 1,801 elite matches.

This elite roster also boasts over 220 top division goals and over 320 global appearances.

They feature one forward, who notched thirty-seven goals in over 100 games for Newcastle United after signing for them for nine million pounds from German league side SC Freiburg in 2012.

He had his debut for Wythenshawe in their most recent home-field match versus defending champions their rivals and netted all six scores in a six-two win - including a 32-minute first-half hat-trick.

Wythenshawe's team for this season also includes former pros such as England and Liverpool striker Emile Heskey, Hull City and Burnley winger George Boyd, Toffees forward Oumar Niasse, Wigan Athletic defender Maynor Figueroa, City duo Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and top-flight championship victors Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

Together, the former top-flight players have secured 15 major trophies and transferred for combined transfer sums of about £123 million.

Well-Known Names and Global Stars

Stephen Ireland started playing for the team during pre-season this summer through close friend and present Wythenshawe teammate Blake Norton, and the former Republic of Ireland midfielder then invited other ex-pros, who all compete in a weekly nine-a-side match, to participate.

Former Senegalese striker Niasse, who netted twelve scores in sixty-five top-flight matches for the Toffees and still goes to their home games, also made his first appearance against Collegiate OB - who are based in Liverpool and wear an Blue warm-up gear as their uniform.

"My friend Stephen Ireland told me 'join and play, it's enjoyable'," said the striker.

"Then he informed me we were facing a side from the city and the surprise I had when I saw them sporting Everton shirts - I thought this is strange for me!

"When you still love the game and you feel you can still play, wherever you can kick a ball, what are you going to choose?

"Those fans who turn up and see are pleased and to give a moment if they see us playing there and to pose us queries - it's more like the pleasure of us getting a place we can enjoy football, with organisation of course."

Such is the bench strength at the club, Niasse had his first game at defender.

"It's a bit unusual but then, I love running and just go inside - I'm not staying back that much," he said.

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

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

Dreamlike' Experience

In addition to Cisse's six goals on his first game, Ireland has netted eight in 3 games for Wythenshawe, while George Boyd hit 5 on his debut appearance and Lescott, a centre-half by trade, notched a hat-trick in one game up front.

Wythenshawe are top of the Top Division with 3 victories from three and a GD of plus nineteen.

Paul Barrow, thirty-eight, who features on the wing for Collegiate OB, came up against ex- Wigan defender Figueroa on the weekend - and had to explain his young son who Heskey was.

He has appeared at two World Cups for his country, in addition to playing in over two hundred Premier League matches.

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

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

"Even Emile [Heskey] got on and he's got over 60 England caps.

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

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

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

"Now we are eager for the second match."

'We'll Still Win the League'

The manager coaches the opposition veterans side, who won the Top Division championship last season, together with his co-manager.

"Our team scored one-nil up and had a