ISNA - Iran's soccer manger Afshin Qotbi said on Sunday he is responsible for Iran's failure to go to 2010 World Cup.

Speaking in a press conference, he offered an apology to all Iranians over national soccer team's unsuccessful performance in prelims and said "I want all Iranians to know that we did whatever we could, but we could not finish successfully."

Iran's football has a bright path, he said adding "I have prepared a four-year plan which Iran's Football Federation has called for, according to the plan arranged in full details Iran can not only go to 2014 World Cup, but also it can attend the second round of the matches and stand first in 2011 Asian Cup.

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