Suarez: "I feared Barça wouldn't sign me, that my career was over"

They were the most complicated days of his sporting career, up to the point that he even imagined his life as a footballer could have been over.

FIFA's tough ban, after the biting incident with Giorgio Chielli at the World Cup in Brazi, left Luis Suarez worrying about what would come next.

"I felt like I had runied my career," the Uruguayan forward confessed in an interview with 'Hat-Trick' on TV3.

He also admitted that when he realised he was set to officially sign for Barça, he couldn't hold back the tears.

"At first I didn't want to hear anything from anybody," he explained. 

"I locked myself away with my family, although later I would reflect, ask for forgiveness and I felt liberated.

"By then the contact had begun with Barça and soon [Pere] Guardiola would ring me and tell me it was done.

"I began to cry, for the situation I was living and for the faith Barça had shown in me. I felt really happy for the commitment the club were demonstrating in me."

Before then, Luis Suarez feared that Barça would back out of a deal for him.

"I was scared that they would call it off, as a repercussion of the incident. I was aware that could have happened."

"I DIDN'T FEEL LIKE A PROFESSIONAL"

Finally, Barça signed him, but he was still in the uncomfortable situation of having to train alone due to FIFA's ban.

"I was training in the gym, away from the cameras and the 'paparazzi," he added.

"They were difficult moments because I didn't feel like a professional, I felt like I was hiding, like I was doing something I should not.

"But that was all because of an error I commtitted and I accept the critics for that."

With that all behind now, though, Luis Suarez is set to return to action this weekend, against Real Madrid, a match he "anxious and eager" to be involved in, but not "obsessed about" it.

Away from that fixture Suarez is aware his life is just beginning at the club he dreamed of representing.

"If I have the possibility to retire here, at Barça, that would be the perfect career," Suarez said.

"Liverpool gave me my name, but Ajax was my school. I learned a lot there, techinique and the movements that are required from strikers."