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What can you enhance a excellent veteran side that have secured back-to-back titles, featuring a league-cup double with thirty victories from thirty-two games?

Sign a collection of former professionals that have performed at the highest tier of club football and international football as you target additional trophies.

A Manchester side fields an amateur veterans squad with nine former top-flight players in their active squad.

222 Top Division Scores, 325 Global Caps

The team Veterans Over 35s are located in southern the city and compete in the Cheshire-based Vets League Top Tier.

The lineup this campaign includes 9 former Premier League players, with a total over 1,800 Premier League matches.

The elite squad also contains over 220 Premier League goals and over 320 international appearances.

They feature one forward, who notched 37 goals in over 100 games for his former club after joining them for £9m from German league club SC Freiburg in 2012.

He made his first appearance for the team in their last home-field match versus reigning title holders Collegiate Old Boys and netted all six goals in a 6-2 win - featuring a 32-minute first-half hat-trick.

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

Collectively, the former top-flight players have secured 15 significant trophies and transferred for combined transfer fees of about £123m.

Famous Names and Global Players

Stephen Ireland began turning out for the team during preseason this summer through close friend and current team teammate Blake Norton, and the former Irish midfielder then invited additional former professionals, who all play in a midweek nine-a-side match, to participate.

Ex- Senegal forward Niasse, who netted twelve scores in 65 top-flight games for the Toffees and still goes to their home games, also made his debut versus the opposition - who are based in Liverpool and use an Everton training kit as their uniform.

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

"After that he told me we were facing a team from Liverpool and the surprise I had when I noticed them sporting Everton shirts - I say this is strange for me!

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

"Those spectators who come and see are pleased and to give someone's day if they see us competing there and to pose us queries - it's really about the joy of us getting a place we can enjoy football, with structure of course."

So great is the squad depth at the club, Niasse made his debut at full-back.

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

"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 seeking. It's good fun."

'Surreal Scenario

Along with the forward's 6 scores on debut, Stephen Ireland has scored eight in three appearances for the side, while George Boyd hit five on his debut match and Lescott, a defender by trade, notched a triple in one game as a striker.

The team are leading of the Premier Division with three wins from 3 and a goal difference of plus nineteen.

Paul Barrow, thirty-eight, who plays on the wing for Collegiate OB, faced ex- Latics full-back Maynor Figueroa on the weekend - and had to tell his young son who Emile Heskey was.

He has appeared at 2 global tournaments for Honduras, in as well as playing in more than two hundred top-flight matches.

"It was going round like wildfire they had these former top-flight stars," remarked Barrow.

"I felt I was a little awestruck playing against him to be honest.

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

"Our side competed well for a solid 20 minutes but then we had a player dismissed and it was tough.

"Our group really have not stopped talking about it - I was calling my mum and brother on the way home.

"They were all friendly, shaking our hands after the match - it was like facing a bunch of normal fellas.

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

We Will Still Win the League'

The manager coaches the Collegiate veterans side, who secured the Premier Division title the previous campaign, together with Paul Maguire.

"We scored one-nil ahead and had a