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How do you boost a excellent experienced side who have claimed consecutive titles, featuring a league-cup double with 30 victories from 32 games?

Recruit a group of former professionals that have performed at the highest level of club and global football as you pursue additional honors.

A Greater Manchester club has an non-professional veterans squad with 9 ex- Premier League players in their active roster.

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

The team Veterans Over 35s are based in south the city and play in the Cheshire-based Veterans League Premier Tier.

The squad list this season boasts 9 ex- top-flight players, with a combined 1,801 elite appearances.

The elite roster also includes 222 top division scores and over 320 global appearances.

They feature one forward, who scored 37 goals in 117 appearances for his former club after moving to them for £9m from German league side SC Freiburg in January 2012.

He made his first appearance for the team in their last home-field game against defending champions Collegiate Old Boys and netted all six goals in a 6-2 victory - featuring a 32-minute opening period triple.

The squad for this season also features ex- professionals such as England and Liverpool striker Emile Heskey, Hull City and Burnley FC winger George Boyd, Toffees forward Oumar Niasse, Wigan defender Maynor Figueroa, Manchester City pair Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and top-flight title victors Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

Together, the former top-flight players have secured 15 big trophies and moved for combined transfer sums of approximately £123 million.

Household Figures and International Players

Stephen Ireland started playing for the team during preseason this summer through good friend and present team teammate Blake Norton, and the former Republic of Ireland player then asked additional ex-pros, who all play in a weekly nine-a-side match, to participate.

Former Senegal forward Oumar Niasse, who scored twelve scores in sixty-five Premier League matches for the Toffees and still attends their matches at Goodison Park, also made his debut against the opposition - who are based in the city and use an Everton warm-up gear as their uniform.

"My mate Stephen Ireland said 'join and play, it's enjoyable'," said Niasse.

"Then he informed me we were playing a side from the city and the shock I had when I saw them wearing Blue shirts - I say this is strange for me!

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

"Those fans who turn up and watch are happy and to give a moment if they see us competing there and to ask us queries - it's more like the joy of us having a place we can enjoy football, with structure of course."

Such is the bench strength at the club, he had his debut at full-back.

"That's a bit different but then, I enjoy running and just go inside - I'm not staying back that much," he added.

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

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

Dreamlike' Feeling

In addition to Cisse's 6 scores on debut, Stephen Ireland has scored eight in three games for Wythenshawe, while George Boyd scored 5 on his debut match and Joleon Lescott, a centre-half by position, scored a hat-trick in one match as a striker.

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

One opponent, thirty-eight, who plays on the flank for Collegiate OB, came up against former Latics full-back Maynor Figueroa on the weekend - and had to tell his nine-year-old son who Emile Heskey was.

He has played at two World Cups for Honduras, in addition to playing in more than two hundred top-flight matches.

"It was spreading like wildfire they had these ex-Premier League players," remarked Barrow.

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

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

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

"We literally haven't stopped talking about it - I was phoning my mother and sibling on the way home.

"The opponents were all dead sound, shaking our hands after the match - it was like facing a group of regular guys.

"Now we are eager for the second fixture."

'We'll Still Win the Title'

The manager manages the Collegiate veterans side, who won the Top Tier championship last season, together with Paul Maguire.

"Our team scored 1-0 ahead and had a