Luis Suarez says he feared his transfer from Liverpool to Barcelona would not happen when he was banned for biting Giorgio Chiellini.
The incident occurred during Uruguay and Italy’s 2014 World Cup group game, won by Uruguay courtesy of a Diego Godin goal.
And in an interview with Barcelona team-mate Gerard Pique for The Players' Tribune, Suarez revealed the consequences of his actions weighed heavily on his mind.
“We score our goal a few minutes after [the bite], when Godín scores, and I don’t celebrate it as much as I usually would — the way everyone else celebrated it — because I was already thinking about the aftermath,” he explained.