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What do you enhance a excellent veteran team who have secured back-to-back titles, featuring a double triumph boasting thirty victories from 32 games?

Recruit a collection of former pro players that have performed at the top tier of club and global soccer as you target further silverware.

One Greater Manchester side has an non-professional veterans squad with 9 ex- top-flight players in their current lineup.

Two Hundred Twenty-Two Premier League Goals, 325 Global Appearances

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

Their lineup this season includes nine ex- Premier League footballers, with a combined over 1,800 elite appearances.

This elite team also boasts over 220 top division scores and over 320 international caps.

The squad feature one forward, who notched thirty-seven scores in 117 games for his former club after joining them for nine million pounds from Bundesliga side SC Freiburg in January 2012.

Cisse made his debut for the team in their last home-field match against defending champions their rivals and netted all six scores in a 6-2 win - featuring a half-hour opening period triple.

The roster for this campaign also features ex- pros such as English and Anfield striker Emile Heskey, Hull and Burnley FC midfielder George Boyd, Toffees striker Oumar Niasse, Wigan full-back Maynor Figueroa, Manchester City pair Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and Premier League championship victors Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

Collectively, the ex- top-flight footballers have secured 15 significant trophies and transferred for total transfer fees of around £123 million.

Famous Figures and Global Stars

Ireland started playing for the team during pre-season this summer through close friend and present team player Blake Norton, and the former Irish player then asked other ex-pros, who all compete in a weekly nine-a-side match, to participate.

Ex- Senegalese striker Oumar Niasse, who scored 12 scores in 65 Premier League matches for the Toffees and still goes to their matches at Goodison Park, also made his debut against the opposition - who are based in the city and use an Blue training kit as their strip.

"A friend Stephen Ireland told me 'come and play, it's good fun'," said the striker.

"After that he told me we were facing a team from Liverpool and the surprise I had when I saw them wearing Blue shirts - I say this is wrong for me!

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

"Those people who come and watch are happy and to give someone's day if they watch us playing there and to ask us questions - it's really about the pleasure of us having a place we can play, with organisation of course."

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

"It's a bit different but then, I enjoy running and just move inside - I'm not defending that much," he said.

"I tell my defender 'I'm not staying' and that I'm just going to keep running.

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

Dreamlike' Feeling

Along with the forward's six scores on his first game, Stephen Ireland has netted eight in three appearances for the side, while George Boyd hit five on his debut appearance and Lescott, a defender by position, notched a hat-trick in one match up front.

The team are top of the Top Tier with three wins from 3 and a goal difference of plus nineteen.

Paul Barrow, 38, who features on the wing for the opposition, faced ex- Wigan defender Figueroa on the weekend - and had to explain his nine-year-old son who Emile Heskey was.

Figueroa has appeared at 2 global tournaments for his country, in addition to featuring in over two hundred Premier League games.

"The news was spreading like wildfire they had all these ex-Premier League players," remarked the player.

"I felt I was a bit starstruck facing Figueroa to be honest.

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

"Our side held our own for a good 20 minutes but then we had a man sent off and it was tough.

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

"The opponents were all friendly, shaking our hands after the game - it was like playing a group of regular guys.

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

We Will Still Take the Title'

The manager manages the opposition veterans side, who secured the Top Division title last season, together with Paul Maguire.

"Our team went 1-0 up and had a