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How can you boost a outstanding experienced team that have claimed back-to-back championships, including a league-cup double boasting thirty wins from thirty-two games?

Sign a raft of ex- pro players who have played at the highest tier of club football and international soccer as you aim for further trophies.

One Manchester team boasts an non-professional veterans squad with nine ex- top-flight players in their present squad.

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

The team Vets Over 35s are located in south Manchester and play in the Cheshire-based Vets Division Top Tier.

The lineup this season includes 9 ex- Premier League players, with a total over 1,800 Premier League appearances.

The star-studded roster also contains over 220 Premier League scores and over 320 global appearances.

They feature Papiss Cisse, who scored thirty-seven scores in 117 games for his former club after signing for them for £9m from German league side SC Freiburg in 2012.

Cisse made his first appearance for the team in their most recent home-field game against reigning champions Collegiate Old Boys and scored every one of the six goals in a six-two win - featuring a 32-minute opening period hat-trick.

The team for this campaign also features ex- professionals such as England and Anfield forward Emile Heskey, Hull City and Burnley midfielder George Boyd, Toffees striker Oumar Niasse, Wigan full-back Maynor Figueroa, Manchester City pair Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and Premier League title winners Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

In total, the ex- top-flight footballers have claimed fifteen major honors and moved for total transfer fees of about £123m.

Well-Known Names and Global Stars

Ireland began turning out for the team in preseason this season through good mate and present Wythenshawe player Blake Norton, and the former Republic of Ireland midfielder then asked additional former professionals, who all compete in a weekly nine-a-side match, to participate.

Ex- Senegal striker Oumar Niasse, who netted twelve goals in sixty-five top-flight games for Everton and still goes to their matches at Goodison Park, also had his debut versus Collegiate OB - who are located in Liverpool and wear an Blue training kit as their strip.

"My mate Stephen told me 'join and play, it's good fun'," said Niasse.

"Then he informed me we were facing a side from Liverpool and the shock I had when I noticed them wearing Blue kits - I thought this is wrong for me!

"If you still enjoy the game and you feel you can still do it, anywhere you can kick a ball, what are you going to choose?

"The spectators who turn up and see are pleased and to give a moment if they see us competing there and to pose us questions - it's more like the joy of us having a place we can enjoy football, with structure of course."

So great is the bench strength at the club, he made his first game at defender.

"It's a little different but then, I enjoy sprinting and just move inside - I'm not staying back that much," he added.

"I tell my centre-back 'I'm not staying' and that I'm just going to continue running.

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

Dreamlike' Scenario

In addition to the forward's six scores on debut, Stephen Ireland has scored 8 in 3 appearances for the side, while Boyd hit 5 on his first match and Joleon Lescott, a defender by position, scored a hat-trick in one game up front.

The team are top of the Premier Tier with three victories from three and a GD of plus nineteen.

One opponent, thirty-eight, who plays on the flank for the opposition, came up against former Wigan full-back Maynor Figueroa on the weekend - and had to tell his young boy who Emile Heskey was.

He has appeared at two global tournaments for his country, in addition to playing in over two hundred Premier League games.

"It was spreading like a rumor they had these former top-flight players," remarked Barrow.

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

"Even Heskey came on and he's has over 60 English caps.

"Our side competed well for a solid twenty mins but then we had a man dismissed and it was hard.

"We literally have not ceased chatting about it - I was phoning my mum and sibling on the journey home.

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

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

'We'll Still Win the League'

Andy Kirby manages the Collegiate veterans team, who secured the Premier Tier championship last season, together with Paul Maguire.

"Our team scored 1-0 ahead and had a