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How can you boost a outstanding veteran team who have claimed back-to-back titles, featuring a league-cup double boasting 30 victories from thirty-two games?

Bring in a collection of ex- pro players that have competed at the top level of club football and global soccer as you target further silverware.

A Manchester side boasts an amateur veterans squad with 9 former Premier League players in their current roster.

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

The team Veterans Over-35s are based in southern Manchester and play in the Cheshire Veterans League Premier Tier.

The lineup this season includes 9 former top-flight footballers, with a collective nearly 1,800 top-flight matches.

This star-studded roster also includes over 220 top division scores and 325 global appearances.

They feature Papiss Cisse, who scored 37 goals in 117 games for Newcastle United after moving to them for £9m from German league side SC Freiburg in 2012.

Cisse made his first appearance for the team in their last home match against defending champions their rivals and scored all six scores in a six-two victory - featuring a 32-minute first-half hat-trick.

The team for this season also includes former professionals such as England and Anfield striker Emile Heskey, Hull City and Burnley FC winger George Boyd, Everton forward Oumar Niasse, Wigan full-back Maynor Figueroa, City pair Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and top-flight title victors Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

Collectively, the former Premier League footballers have secured fifteen major trophies and transferred for combined transfer fees of about £123m.

Well-Known Figures and International Players

Ireland began playing for the team in preseason this summer through close friend and present team teammate Blake Norton, and the former Republic of Ireland player then invited other former professionals, who all compete in a weekly small-sided match, to participate.

Former Senegalese striker Niasse, who netted 12 scores in 65 Premier League matches for the Toffees and still attends their home games, also had his debut against the opposition - who are based in Liverpool and use an Blue warm-up gear as their strip.

"A mate Stephen Ireland told me 'join and have a game, it's good fun'," commented Niasse.

"Then he told me we were playing a side from the city and the surprise I had when I noticed them wearing Blue kits - I thought this is strange for me!

"When you still enjoy football and you know you can still do it, wherever you can play, what are you going to do?

"The fans who turn up and see are pleased and to give someone's moment if they see us competing there and to ask us questions - it's more like the pleasure of us having somewhere we can enjoy football, with organisation of course."

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

"That's a little unusual but then, I love sprinting and just move inside - I'm not defending that much," he said.

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

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

'Surreal Feeling

Along with the forward's 6 scores on debut, Ireland has netted 8 in three games for the side, while George Boyd hit 5 on his first appearance and Joleon Lescott, a defender by position, scored a hat-trick in one game up front.

The team are top of the Top Division with 3 wins from three and a goal difference of +19.

One opponent, 38, 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.

Figueroa has played at 2 global tournaments for his country, in addition to playing in more than two hundred Premier League matches.

"It was going round like a rumor they had all these ex-Premier League players," said Barrow.

"I think I was a little awestruck playing against Figueroa to be honest.

"Also Emile [Heskey] got on and he's got over 60 English caps.

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

"We really haven't stopped talking about it - I was phoning my mum and sibling on the journey home.

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

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

We Will Still Take the League'

The manager manages the opposition veterans team, who won the Top Division championship the previous campaign, together with Paul Maguire.

"Our team scored 1-0 up and had a