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How can you boost a stellar veteran side who have secured consecutive championships, featuring a double triumph boasting thirty victories from thirty-two matches?

Bring in a group of former pro players who have played at the highest level of club and global soccer as you target further honors.

A Manchester club has an amateur vets squad with nine ex- top-flight footballers in their current lineup.

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

The team Vets Over 35s are based in southern the city and play in the Cheshire-based Vets League Top Division.

Their roster this campaign features 9 ex- top-flight footballers, with a combined nearly 1,800 top-flight matches.

The high-profile roster also includes 222 Premier League scores and 325 international caps.

The squad include one forward, who notched 37 scores in over 100 appearances for his former club after moving to them for £9m from German league club SC Freiburg in January 2012.

He made his debut for Wythenshawe in their last home game versus defending title holders Collegiate Old Boys and netted every one of the six scores in a six-two victory - featuring a 32-minute first-half triple.

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

In total, the former Premier League footballers have secured fifteen big trophies and transferred for total transfer sums of approximately £123 million.

Well-Known Names and International Stars

Ireland started playing for the side in preseason this season through close friend and current Wythenshawe teammate Blake Norton, and the ex- Republic of Ireland player then invited additional ex-pros, who all play in a weekly nine-a-side match, to participate.

Former Senegalese forward Oumar Niasse, who netted twelve scores in 65 top-flight games for Everton and still attends their matches at Goodison Park, also made his debut versus the opposition - who are located in the city and wear an Blue warm-up gear as their strip.

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

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

"If you still love football and you feel you can still do it, anywhere you can play, what are you going to choose?

"The spectators who turn up and watch are pleased and to make a moment if they watch us competing there and to ask us queries - it's really about the pleasure of us having a place we can enjoy football, with structure of course."

Such is the bench strength at the club, Niasse made his first game at full-back.

"That's a bit different but then, I enjoy sprinting and just go forward - 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 running.

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

'Surreal Feeling

Along with the forward's six goals on debut, Ireland has netted eight in three appearances for Wythenshawe, while George Boyd hit 5 on his first appearance and Lescott, a centre-half by trade, notched a triple in one game as a striker.

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

One opponent, thirty-eight, who features on the flank for Collegiate OB, faced ex- Latics defender Figueroa on the weekend - and had to tell his nine-year-old son who Emile Heskey was.

He has appeared at 2 global tournaments for Honduras, in as well as playing in more than two hundred Premier League games.

"It was spreading like a rumor they had these ex-Premier League stars," remarked Barrow.

"I think I was a bit starstruck playing against Figueroa to be honest.

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

"Our side held our own for a solid twenty mins but then we had a player dismissed and it was tough.

"We really have not ceased chatting about it - I was phoning my mother and brother on the way home.

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

"Now we can't wait for the second fixture."

'We'll Still Win the League'

Andy Kirby coaches the opposition vets team, who won the Top Tier championship last season, together with his co-manager.

"We scored one-nil ahead and had a