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What can you boost a excellent veteran team who have won consecutive championships, including a double triumph boasting thirty wins from 32 games?

Bring in a collection of former professionals who have competed at the top tier of club and international soccer as you pursue more silverware.

A Manchester side boasts an amateur veterans squad with 9 ex- Premier League players in their active roster.

Two Hundred Twenty-Two Premier League Scores, 325 International Caps

Wythenshawe Veterans Over-35s are based in southern Manchester and compete in the Cheshire-based Veterans League Top Division.

The lineup this campaign boasts nine former top-flight footballers, with a total over 1,800 elite matches.

This star-studded team also boasts over 220 Premier League scores and over 320 international caps.

The squad feature one forward, who scored 37 scores in over 100 appearances for Newcastle United after signing for them for nine million pounds from Bundesliga club Freiburg in 2012.

Cisse had his debut for Wythenshawe in their last home-field game versus reigning champions their rivals and netted every one of the six goals in a six-two victory - featuring a 32-minute first-half triple.

Wythenshawe's team for this campaign also includes ex- pros such as English and Anfield striker Emile Heskey, Hull and Burnley winger George Boyd, Everton striker Oumar Niasse, Wigan full-back Maynor Figueroa, City pair Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and top-flight title winners Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

Collectively, the former top-flight footballers have won 15 significant trophies and transferred for combined transfer sums of around £123m.

Household Names and International Stars

Ireland started turning out for the side in pre-season this season through close mate and present team player Blake Norton, and the former Irish midfielder then invited additional former professionals, who all compete in a weekly small-sided match, to join in.

Former Senegal striker Niasse, who scored 12 goals in 65 top-flight matches for Everton and still goes to their matches at Goodison Park, also made his first appearance versus Collegiate OB - who are located in the city and wear an Everton warm-up gear as their strip.

"A friend Stephen said 'come and have a game, it's a laugh'," commented the striker.

"After that he told me we were playing a team from Liverpool and the shock I had when I noticed them wearing Blue shirts - I thought this is wrong for me!

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

"The fans who turn up and see are pleased and to make someone's moment if they see us competing there and to pose us questions - it's really about the joy of us having a place we can play, with organisation of course."

So great is the bench strength at Wythenshawe, he had his first game at full-back.

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

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

"That running is what I'm after. It's enjoyable."

Dreamlike' Feeling

Along with the forward's 6 scores on debut, Stephen Ireland has netted 8 in three appearances for the side, while Boyd scored five on his debut match and Joleon Lescott, a centre-half by trade, notched a triple in one match up front.

The team are leading of the Top Tier with 3 wins from three and a GD of plus nineteen.

One opponent, thirty-eight, who plays on the wing for the opposition, came up against ex- Latics full-back Maynor Figueroa on Sunday - and had to tell his young son who Heskey was.

Figueroa has appeared at 2 global tournaments for Honduras, in addition to featuring in over 200 Premier League games.

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

"I think I was a little awestruck facing him to be honest.

"Even Heskey got on and he's has 60-odd England appearances.

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

"We literally have not ceased chatting about it - I was phoning my mum and brother on the journey home.

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

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

We Will Still Take the League'

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

"We scored one-nil up and had a