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What do you enhance a stellar veteran team that have won back-to-back titles, featuring a league-cup double with 30 victories from thirty-two matches?

Recruit a group of former professionals who have performed at the top level of club football and global football as you aim for more silverware.

One Greater Manchester club fields an non-professional veterans team with 9 former Premier League footballers in their active lineup.

222 Premier League Goals, Three Hundred Twenty-Five Global Appearances

The team Veterans Over 35s are located in southern Manchester and play in the Cheshire-based Veterans League Top Division.

The lineup this campaign boasts 9 former top-flight footballers, with a combined 1,801 elite matches.

The high-profile squad also boasts over 220 top division scores and 325 international appearances.

The squad feature one forward, who netted thirty-seven scores in 117 appearances for his former club after joining them for nine million pounds from German league side Freiburg in January 2012.

He had his first appearance for Wythenshawe in their most recent home game versus reigning title holders their rivals and scored all six scores in a 6-2 win - including a half-hour first-half triple.

The roster for this campaign also features ex- pros such as England and Liverpool forward Emile Heskey, Hull City and Burnley FC winger George Boyd, Everton striker Oumar Niasse, Wigan Athletic defender Maynor Figueroa, City duo Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and top-flight title winners Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

In total, the former Premier League players have claimed 15 major trophies and moved for combined transfer sums of around £123m.

Famous Names and Global Stars

Ireland started turning out for the side in preseason this season through close mate and current team player Blake Norton, and the former Republic of Ireland player then invited additional ex-pros, who all compete in a weekly nine-a-side match, to participate.

Ex- Senegalese striker Niasse, who netted 12 scores in sixty-five Premier League matches for the Toffees and still goes to their matches at Goodison Park, also had his first appearance versus the opposition - who are based in the city and use an Everton training kit as their strip.

"A mate Stephen Ireland said 'join and play, it's enjoyable'," commented the striker.

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

"If you still love football and you know you can still do it, anywhere you can kick a ball, what are you going to do?

"Those spectators who come and watch are pleased and to make someone's moment if they watch us playing there and to ask us queries - it's more like the joy of us having somewhere we can play, with organisation of course."

Such is the squad depth at Wythenshawe, he had his first game at full-back.

"It's a bit unusual but then, I enjoy sprinting and just go inside - I'm not defending that much," he said.

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

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

Unreal Feeling

Along with Cisse's 6 scores on debut, Ireland has scored eight in 3 appearances for the side, while George Boyd scored five on his debut match and Joleon Lescott, a defender by trade, scored a hat-trick in one game up front.

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

One opponent, 38, who plays on the flank for the opposition, came up against ex- Latics full-back Maynor Figueroa on the weekend - and had to explain his nine-year-old boy who Emile Heskey was.

Figueroa has appeared at 2 global tournaments for Honduras, in as well as featuring in over 200 top-flight games.

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

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

"Even Heskey came on and he's got over 60 England appearances.

"Our side held our own for a good 20 minutes but then we had a player dismissed and it was hard.

"Our group really have not ceased chatting about it - I was phoning my mother and sibling on the journey home.

"They were all friendly, shaking our hands after the match - it was like facing a group of normal guys.

"Now we are eager for the return fixture."

'We'll Still Win the League'

Andy Kirby coaches the opposition veterans side, who secured the Top Tier title the previous campaign, along with his co-manager.

"Our team scored one-nil ahead and had a