Director of Pepsi Football Academy, Coach Kashimawo Laloko, has attributed Golden Eaglet failure to qualify for the Africa U-17 Championship in Algiers, Algeria, to indiscipline.

Golden Eaglets was ousted by the Republic of Benin on 3-2 goals aggregate. Eaglets lost the return leg of the qualifiers 0-3 after winning the first leg, a fortnight earlier in Nigeria 2-0. Nigeria qualifies automatically for the FIFA U-17 World Cup in 2009 as host.

Laloko, a former Nigeria Football Association (NFA) now Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) technical committee chairman, said he noticed the indiscipline in the Golden Eaglets during the invitational tournament he organised in Abeokuta to prepare the team (Eaglets) for the FIFA U-17 World Cup.

Laloko, who spoke in Lagos on Thursday, said he refused to point out this to the nation at that time because he did not want to generate crisis in the team, considering the qualifier it was to play.

According to him, while other teams in the invitational tournament exhibited high degree of discipline, this cannot be said of the Eaglets.

He, therefore, wondered why the team coach, Alphonsus Dike, waited to be sacked before resigning.

"He should have resigned in Benin and not wait to be sacked by the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF)," he said.