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How can you boost a outstanding veteran team who have won consecutive championships, featuring a double triumph with thirty wins from thirty-two matches?

Bring in a collection of former professionals who have competed at the elite level of club football and international soccer as you aim for further honors.

A Greater Manchester side has an amateur veterans team with 9 former Premier League footballers in their present lineup.

Two Hundred Twenty-Two Top Division Goals, 325 International Caps

The team Vets Over 35s are situated in south the city and compete in the Cheshire Veterans League Premier Tier.

The roster this campaign boasts 9 ex- top-flight players, with a combined over 1,800 top-flight appearances.

The high-profile roster also includes 222 Premier League goals and 325 international appearances.

They include one forward, who notched thirty-seven goals in 117 games for his former club after moving to them for nine million pounds from Bundesliga club Freiburg in 2012.

He had his debut for Wythenshawe in their last home game versus reigning title holders their rivals and netted every one of the six scores in a 6-2 win - including a 32-minute first-half triple.

Wythenshawe's team for this campaign also features former pros such as England and Liverpool striker Emile Heskey, Hull and Burnley FC midfielder George Boyd, Toffees forward Oumar Niasse, Wigan full-back Maynor Figueroa, City duo Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and top-flight title victors Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

Collectively, the ex- top-flight players have claimed fifteen big honors and transferred for combined transfer fees of around £123 million.

Famous Names and International Players

Stephen Ireland began playing for the side during preseason this season through good mate and current Wythenshawe teammate Blake Norton, and the ex- Republic of Ireland player then invited other former professionals, who all play in a midweek nine-a-side match, to join in.

Former Senegal forward Oumar Niasse, who scored twelve goals in sixty-five top-flight games for the Toffees and still goes to their matches at Goodison Park, also had his first appearance versus the opposition - who are based in Liverpool and use an Blue training kit as their uniform.

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

"After that he informed me we were playing a team from the city and the surprise I had when I saw them wearing Blue kits - I thought this is strange for me!

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

"The spectators who turn up and see are happy and to give someone's day if they see us playing there and to pose us questions - it's really about the joy of us getting somewhere we can enjoy football, with organisation of course."

So great is the squad depth at the club, he made his first game at defender.

"It's a bit unusual but then, I love running and just move 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 continue attacking.

"That movement is what I'm after. It's good fun."

Dreamlike' Experience

Along with the forward's six scores on debut, Ireland has netted 8 in three appearances for the side, while Boyd scored five on his first appearance and Lescott, a centre-half by position, scored a triple in one game up front.

The team are top of the Premier Tier with three wins from three and a GD of +19.

One opponent, thirty-eight, who features on the wing for the opposition, faced ex- Latics defender Figueroa on the weekend - and had to explain his nine-year-old boy who Emile Heskey was.

Figueroa has played at 2 World Cups for Honduras, in as well as featuring in more than 200 Premier League matches.

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

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

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

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

"Our group really have not ceased talking about it - I was calling my mum and sibling on the way home.

"The opponents were all friendly, shaking our hands after the game - it was like facing a group of normal fellas.

"Now we are eager for the return fixture."

We Will Still Win the Title'

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

"Our team scored 1-0 ahead and had a