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What can you improve a excellent veteran team that have claimed back-to-back championships, including a league-cup double with thirty victories from thirty-two matches?

Recruit a group of former pro players that have performed at the top tier of club football and global football as you pursue further trophies.

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

Two Hundred Twenty-Two Top Division Scores, 325 Global Caps

The team Veterans Over 35s are located in southern the city and play in the Cheshire-based Veterans League Premier Division.

Their squad list this season boasts 9 former Premier League players, with a collective 1,801 top-flight games.

The star-studded team also contains 222 Premier League scores and 325 international appearances.

They feature one forward, who scored 37 goals in over 100 appearances for Newcastle United after signing for them for £9m from German league side Freiburg in 2012.

He had his first appearance for the team in their most recent home game against defending champions Collegiate Old Boys and netted all six scores in a 6-2 victory - including a half-hour first-half triple.

Wythenshawe's squad for this season also features ex- pros such as England and Liverpool forward Emile Heskey, Hull and Burnley winger George Boyd, Everton striker Oumar Niasse, Wigan Athletic full-back Maynor Figueroa, Manchester City pair Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and Premier League title victors Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.

Together, the former Premier League footballers have claimed 15 major honors and transferred for combined transfer fees of around £123m.

Well-Known Figures and Global Stars

Ireland began turning out for the team during preseason this season through close friend and current Wythenshawe teammate Blake Norton, and the ex- Irish player then asked other ex-pros, who all compete in a midweek nine-a-side match, to participate.

Ex- Senegal striker Niasse, who scored 12 goals in 65 Premier League games for the Toffees and still goes to their home games, also made his first appearance against Collegiate OB - who are located in the city and use an Blue warm-up gear as their strip.

"A mate Stephen told me 'join and have a game, it's a laugh'," commented 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 strange for me!

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

"The spectators who turn up and watch are pleased and to make someone's moment if they see us competing there and to pose us questions - it's really about the joy of us getting a place we can play, with structure of course."

Such is the strength in depth at the club, he had his first game at defender.

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

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

Dreamlike' Experience

Along with the forward's six goals on his first game, Stephen Ireland has netted 8 in 3 appearances for the side, while George Boyd scored five on his debut appearance and Joleon Lescott, a defender by position, notched a hat-trick in one match as a striker.

Wythenshawe are top of the Top Division with 3 victories from three and a goal difference of plus nineteen.

One opponent, thirty-eight, who plays on the wing for the opposition, faced ex- Wigan defender Maynor Figueroa on Sunday - and had to explain his young boy who Emile Heskey was.

Figueroa has appeared at two global tournaments for his country, in addition to featuring in over two hundred top-flight matches.

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

"I felt I was a bit awestruck playing against Figueroa to be honest.

"Even Emile [Heskey] came on and he's has over 60 English appearances.

"Our side held our own for a solid 20 minutes but then we had a player dismissed and it was hard.

"We really haven't stopped chatting about it - I was phoning my mother and sibling on the way home.

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

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

'We'll Still Win the League'

The manager manages the Collegiate vets side, who won the Top Division title last season, along with Paul Maguire.

"Our team scored one-nil ahead and had a