Luis Suarez says he is getting help in order to control?his ?impulse? to bite.
The striker, 27, who will make his Barcelona debut?against Real Madrid today, was banned for four months?for biting Italian defender Giorgio Chiellini during the?World Cup.
Admitting he had a problem, Suarez told the?Guardian Weekend magazine: ?It is like an impulse, like a?reaction.?I believe I am on the right path now, dealing with the?people who can help me, the right kind of people.?Suarez?s attack on Chiellini was the third time the Uruguayan had bitten an opponent.
He had previously done the same to PSV Eindhoven?s?Otman Bakkal while playing for Ajax in 2010, and?Chelsea?s Branislav Ivanovic when he was a Liverpool?player in 2013.
?Everyone has different ways of defending themselves.
In my case, the pressure and tension came out in?that way,? he added.
?There are other players who react by breaking someone?s?leg, or smashing someone?s nose across their face.What happened with Chiellini is seen as worse.
?I understand why biting is seen so badly.??Suarez, however, remains unrepentant about his clash?with Manchester United?s Patrice Evra in October 2011,?when he was found guilty of racial abuse, banned for?eight matches and fined ?40,000.
?I know I was wrong with the biting but I was?accused of racism without any proof,? Suarez said.