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What can you boost a excellent veteran squad who have won back-to-back titles, including a league-cup double boasting 30 victories from thirty-two matches?

Bring in a collection of former pro players who have competed at the elite level of club and global soccer as you aim for more honors.

One Manchester side has an non-professional vets squad with 9 former Premier League players in their current roster.

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

Wythenshawe Veterans Over 35s are based in south Manchester and play in the Cheshire Veterans League Top Tier.

The lineup this season boasts nine ex- top-flight players, with a collective 1,801 elite games.

The star-studded team also includes 222 top division scores and 325 international appearances.

They feature one forward, who netted thirty-seven goals in 117 appearances for Newcastle United after signing for them for nine million pounds from German league club Freiburg in 2012.

He had his first appearance for Wythenshawe in their last home game against defending title holders Collegiate Old Boys and netted every one of the six scores in a 6-2 victory - including a half-hour first-half hat-trick.

Wythenshawe's team for this campaign also includes former professionals such as English and Anfield forward Emile Heskey, Hull and Burnley FC winger George Boyd, Everton striker Oumar Niasse, Wigan defender Maynor Figueroa, City pair Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and Premier League championship victors Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

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

Household Figures and Global Stars

Stephen Ireland began playing for the team during pre-season this summer through close mate and current Wythenshawe teammate Blake Norton, and the former Republic of Ireland player then asked other former professionals, who all compete in a weekly small-sided match, to participate.

Former Senegal striker Oumar Niasse, who netted twelve goals in 65 top-flight matches for the Toffees and still goes to their home games, also had his debut versus the opposition - who are located in Liverpool and use an Everton training kit as their strip.

"A mate Stephen Ireland said 'come and play, it's good fun'," commented Niasse.

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

"When you still enjoy the game and you know you can still do it, anywhere you can play, what are you going to choose?

"Those fans who come and see are pleased and to give someone's moment if they see us competing there and to ask us queries - it's really about the pleasure of us getting somewhere we can enjoy football, with organisation of course."

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

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

"I tell my centre-back 'I'm not hanging back' and that I'm just going to continue attacking.

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

Dreamlike' Scenario

Along with the forward's six scores on debut, Stephen Ireland has netted 8 in 3 games for the side, while Boyd scored 5 on his first match and Lescott, a defender by trade, scored a triple in one match as a striker.

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

One opponent, thirty-eight, who features on the flank for the opposition, faced ex- Wigan defender Maynor Figueroa on Sunday - and had to tell his young son who Heskey was.

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

"The news was spreading like wildfire they had all these ex-Premier League stars," said the player.

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

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

"Our side held our own for a good 20 mins but then we had a player sent off and it was tough.

"We literally haven't stopped chatting about it - I was calling my mother and brother on the way home.

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

"Now we are eager for the return match."

'We'll Still Win the Title'

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

"We went one-nil ahead and had a