Rafael Nadal is slowly seeing the light at the end of the tunnel again after a couple of bad years. The 2015 season will forever be in his mind due to what he described as mental injury, the inability to handle the pressure in the important moments.

'I had much anxiety and couldn't control the pressure,' Nadal said during an event organized by his sponsor Sabadell Bank. 'It's difficult to explain these things. I cameback home and said myself: you won almost everything, why are you nervous? I asked myself this question everyday. The competition kills you.

I never thought about calling it a career, but take a few months off yes. Now I am very willing to play, I started well the year competing against the best players in the World and having chances to win. If I keep working this way, I can have a good season.' The Australian Open final lost in five sets to Roger Federer cannot cancel the good things he did in the two weeks of the first Grand Slam of the season: 'I was happy because I did some important steps forward.

Federer played better than me and I think he deserved to win. He was very inspired, played very aggressive and there were not many long points. I had some emotional weeks where I enjoyed myself. In the semifinals I thought: if I lose it's because he deserved to win, but I am enjoying.

It was something special.' The matches against Federer are not like others: 'It's been for a long time that we play for important titles, however in the last years we did not play much against each other and doing it again was so beautiful.

Djokovic and Murray had lost and the crowd wanted this match.' Nadal who last year had a wrist injury that forced him to withdraw from Roland Garros but not from Rio Olympics. 'I have no regrets about playing the Games, which was something unique.

I regret for playing Roland Garros doing wrist infiltrations. But we are all good at saying it now.' He finally speaks about football and his favourite team, Real Madrid. 'If you ask me if I would like to be the president of this team, I would say yes,' Rafa admitted.

'But now we have a good one and I don't think Real Madrid needs me, but you never know what can happen in the future. It's something I can't plan. However, I think it won't happen.' ALSO READ: Grigor Dimitrov: 'Nadal told me that if I play like this, I will win a Grand Slam title