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Matt Le Tissier has picked his best England XI for Gareth Southgates first game in charge - and thinks captain Wayne Rooney should be dropped for his teenage team-mate Marcus Rashford against Malta. Rooney has started the last three Manchester United games on the bench, with Rashford favoured by Jose Mourinho, and Le Tiss believes the Three Lions will be a more dangerous attacking force by following suit.He does, however, reckon Southgate will keep faith in Englands all-time leading scorer after confirming there will be no change in captaincy during his interim spell. Heres who the former England international would pick for Saturdays World Cup Qualifier and his reasons why... Le Tissier picks his England starting XI to face Malta and plumps for a 4-3-3 formation If were talking about who I think will start then Id expect Rooney to be in the line-up because Southgate has kept him as captain, but Im not sure that if you cant get into your club side then you should be walking into the England team, Soccer Saturday pundit Le Tissier told Sky Sports. Le Tiss Sky Bet tips Find out what Le Tissier is backing at 20/1 with Sky Bet here. Its not often that weve had that much pace in our team, so when youve got it in abundance then use it. I think Rooney, while being very useful on the bench, can slow the play down a bit. Rashford has the world at his feet and the lad clearly has a good head on his shoulders so, after forcing his way into the Manchester United team, the next challenge is establishing himself as an England regular.Le Tiss does not believe Southgate should incorporate both Rooney and Rashford - and thinks the formers trial as a midfielder was a failed one. Uniteds Jesse Lingard feels Rooney still has plenty to offer England Its Rashford over Rooney for me because I dont see Rooney as a midfielder, he added. Id rather have Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain in there.He obviously hasnt started Arsenals last few games but its a different situation to Rooney. Rashford should start, according to Le Tissier Hes a lot younger and has had his injury problems, but hes fresher and quicker and against teams like Malta with a packed defence you need that bit of pace to go by players and get into those dangerous positions. Danny Higginbotham tells Sky Sports News HQ Gareth Southgate has a difficult decision to make about the role of the England captain The Southampton legend would like to see Joe Hart retain his place in the XI despite being loaned out to Torino, but prefers Chris Smalling and Ryan Bertrand over Gary Cahill and Danny Rose. Chelseas Gary Cahill does not make Le Tissiers side He added: I think Cahill is a little bit out of sorts at the moment and Stones and Smalling deserve to be starting ahead of him, while I still think Bertrand is a better defender than Rose.Do you agree with Le Tisss England XI for Malta? Leave a comment below if youre reading on skysports.com or tweet us @SkyFootball...Watch Englands tour of Bangladesh, plus Premier League football and the Japan Grand Prix on Sky Sports. Upgrade now and enjoy three months at half price! 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Im just really proud I managed to take a very short career and do big things with it, the 29-year-old Calgarian said at Alpine Canadas headquarters in his hometown. It was a great ride. It really was. I did some things in this country that I was the first to do and Im really proud of that. Kuceras first four years on the national team were successful and promising. But a broken leg followed by a frustrating inner ear condition sidelined him for four of the last five seasons and also kept him from competing in two Winter Olympics. Vestibular neuritis -- an inner ear condition causing dizziness and nausea -- struck during a training camp in Chile last September and made it impossible to race through gates at 130 kilometres per hour. Kucera wasnt able to get back on skis to race at the Winter Games in Sochi in February. The symptoms still linger and the uncertainty over how long theyll remain, combined with an opportunity to join the coaching staff of the national development team, steered Kucera towards retirement. Truth be told, Im not 100 per cent yet, he said. I think my body just told me it was time to start doing something else. This vestibular neuritis is tough because there is no time line. I could be good by July, but I could be good by next July and really, nobody can give me that answer. Who wouldve thought the thing that would have finally took me out was waking up dizzy one morning? Super giant slalom, or super-G, is shorter than downhill but there are more gates on the course. The discipline requires a combination of speed and technical ability. At five foot nine and 185 pounds, Kucera wasnt as beefy as the top downhill racers early in his career, so he excelled in super-G. But on Feb. 7, 2009, he bested such heavyweights as Hermann Maier of Austria, Didier Cuche of Switzerland, Aksel Lund Svindal of Norway and American Bode Miller to win on Val-dIseres difficult slope. Val-dIsere was a course that obviously played into a lot of my strengths, very technical, very steep, Kucera recalled. That being said, I felt like every year I was becoming a better and better downhiller. I just hit the right track, the right conditions and the right time of my career to become a champion there. Kucera was the first CCanadian to win in 26 years of World Cup racing at Lake Louise when he captured super-G gold in 2006.dddddddddddd. He drew the No. 1 start bib, so after crossing the finish line, the 22-year-old stood nervously in front of television cameras watching as skier after skier came down the mountain. I remember being really cold. I think it was -35 C that day, Kucera said. Coming down, having that great run, freezing, watching a lot of the people I looked up to growing up and me beating them, it was pretty exciting. Kucera dedicated that victory to his former coach and friend, Jason Lapierre, who was hit by a car while biking and died earlier that year. Kuceras successes coincided with those of teammates Erik Guay, Manny Osborne-Paradis and Jan Hudec. The Canadian Cowboys have given the national mens downhill team depth it hasnt had since Steve Podborski and Ken Read headlined the Crazy Canucks of the 1980s. Guay won the mens downhill title again for Canada in 2011, while Hudec took silver in 2007. Guay passed Podborski as Canadas most decorated World Cup racer with 22 career medals. Guay also won the overall super-G title in 2010. Osborne-Paradis collected nine World Cup medals, including three gold, between 2006 and 2010. Hudec tied for third and won Olympic bronze in super-G in Sochi. As a group, now with Jans medal at the Olympics, weve really done it all, Kucera said. The only thing I guess you could say we havent done is we dont have an Olympic champion yet. As a group, we pulled off some special things. Weve kind of superceded the Crazy Canuck era and did something great. Weve set the bar pretty high for the next group coming up, but I think thats where it needs to be. Kucera won two World Cup medals at Lake Louise -- he took silver there in 2008 -- but the mountain was disastrous for him in the first race of 2009-10. He badly broke his left leg in the super-G and erased his chance to race in Whistler, B.C., at the 2010 Winter Games. Rehabilitation and subsequent setbacks kept him off his race skis for the next three seasons. Obviously the last four years hadnt gone exactly gone the way I would have liked them to, but that being said, I felt the time was right to step away now, Kucera said. Ive had a good run as an athlete. Im walking away relatively healthy. Thats a good thing. Im excited and passionate about the next group, the guys Im going to be working with because Im going to be working with a pretty exciting group of 17- to 19-year-olds. Kuceras parents, Jan and Zdena, emigrated to Canada from the former Czechoslovakia in the early 1980s before John was born. Jan worked with the ski patrol at nearby Nakiska. John and his brother James began skiing at an early age. ' ' '