Lena de Vries is een maritiem consultant met 15 jaar ervaring in havenlogistiek en scheepsbeheer.
How can you improve a outstanding experienced squad that have secured back-to-back championships, featuring a double triumph boasting thirty victories from 32 matches?
Bring in a collection of former pro players who have competed at the highest level of club and international soccer as you aim for additional silverware.
A Manchester side has an amateur vets team with nine ex- top-flight footballers in their present lineup.
Wythenshawe Veterans Over-35s are based in southern the city and compete in the Cheshire-based Veterans League Top Division.
The lineup this campaign boasts nine former top-flight footballers, with a total nearly 1,800 Premier League appearances.
The star-studded squad also contains 222 Premier League goals and over 320 global appearances.
They include Papiss Cisse, who notched 37 scores in over 100 appearances for Newcastle United after moving to them for £9m from Bundesliga club SC Freiburg in 2012.
Cisse made his debut for the team in their most recent home game against defending title holders their rivals and scored every one of the six scores in a 6-2 win - including a 32-minute first-half hat-trick.
Wythenshawe's roster for this campaign also includes former professionals such as England and Liverpool forward Emile Heskey, Hull City and Burnley FC winger George Boyd, Toffees forward Oumar Niasse, Wigan Athletic full-back Maynor Figueroa, City duo Stephen Ireland and Nedum Onuoha and top-flight title winners Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater.
Collectively, the ex- top-flight players have claimed 15 significant trophies and transferred for total transfer sums of around £123m.
Ireland started playing for the side during pre-season this season through close mate and present team player Blake Norton, and the former Republic of Ireland player then asked other ex-pros, who all play in a midweek nine-a-side game, to join in.
Former Senegal forward Niasse, who scored twelve scores in 65 Premier League matches for the Toffees and even now attends their matches at Goodison Park, also made his first appearance against Collegiate OB - who are based in Liverpool and wear an Everton warm-up gear as their strip.
"My mate Stephen said 'join and play, it's a laugh'," said the striker.
"After that he informed me we were playing a side from Liverpool and the shock I had when I noticed them sporting Everton kits - I say this is strange for me!
"If you still enjoy football and you feel you can still do it, anywhere you can play, what are you going to choose?
"The people who turn up and watch are happy and to give someone's moment if they see us playing there and to pose us queries - it's really about the pleasure of us getting somewhere we can play, with structure of course."
So great is the squad depth at Wythenshawe, he made his first game at full-back.
"It's a bit unusual but then, I love sprinting and just move 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.
"That movement is what I'm after. It's good fun."
Along with Cisse's six goals on his first game, Stephen Ireland has netted 8 in 3 appearances for the side, while George Boyd scored 5 on his debut appearance and Joleon Lescott, a centre-half by position, scored a triple in one match up front.
The team are top of the Top Tier with three wins from 3 and a GD of plus nineteen.
One opponent, 38, who features on the wing for the opposition, faced former Wigan defender Figueroa on the weekend - and had to explain his young boy who Heskey was.
He has appeared at two global tournaments for Honduras, in addition to featuring in over 200 Premier League matches.
"It was going round like wildfire they had these former top-flight players," remarked the player.
"I felt I was a little awestruck facing him to be honest.
"Even Heskey got on and he's got over 60 England appearances.
"We held our own for a solid twenty mins but then we had a man sent off and it was tough.
"We literally haven't stopped talking about it - I was calling my mum and brother on the journey home.
"The opponents were all really nice, shaking our hands after the game - it was like playing a bunch of regular guys.
"Now we are eager for the return match."
Andy Kirby coaches the opposition vets team, who won the Premier Division championship the previous campaign, together with Paul Maguire.
"Our team went one-nil ahead and had a
Lena de Vries is een maritiem consultant met 15 jaar ervaring in havenlogistiek en scheepsbeheer.