A Spanish report revealed the secret of the green spots that appear on the clothes of Real Madrid players during the team’s matches, especially those that are held at the Santiago Bernabeu stadium after its renewal.
Perhaps the follower of the “Meringue” matches during the last two seasons have noticed the emergence of green spots on the players ’pimples and pants, which sparked the confusion of the followers and supporters of the royal club alike.
The Spanish newspaper “Marca” reported that the main reason is the case of furnished grass on the field.
Manchester City coach Pep Guardiola criticized the Santiago Bernabeu Stadium during his match against Real Madrid in the first leg of the Champions League quarter-finals 2023-2024, which ended in a 3-3 draw.
“Florentino Perez (Real Madrid president) must only care to have a good stadium as Real Madrid always was,” Pep said, a statement that the Royal Club officials who believed that the stadium’s condition was more than excellent before they started working to end this complaint forever, according to the newspaper.
Over the course of last season, 2024-2025, Real Madrid replaced the Santiago Bernabeu stadium 5 times, as part of a new project aimed at restoring the quality of the grass.
The change of grass cultivation conditions improved its quality, through a system consisting of 6 large panels of natural grass and hybrids dividing the stadium, which is transferred to store underground through a hydraulic system that raises it and then brings it under the ground one by one in an area of 30 meters for more than 300 days per year.
🏟️🌱👀 Bernabéu’s retractable grass as you had never seen!#RealFootball pic.twitter.com/r2TkzsiNPv
– Real Madrid CF (@realmadrid) September 5, 2023
Under the Earth, the environment and light are appropriate to care for grass with strict control of moisture, irrigation and temperature.
In light of all these measures, it spread on social media during the last season speculations that spoke about the use of green coating to cover dry or damaged areas of grass to avoid the stadium in a bad condition on television.
According to “Marca”, this idea is not wrong, but Real Madrid’s motives were different. The club did not intend to hide the case of grass, but its goal was to improve the visual appearance by painting the break lines between the different grass panels to reduce the clarity of those breaks.
This procedure takes place before each match, as the paint on the grass lasts from 4 to 5 hours only using a harmful product and does not in any way affect the health of the players, but it sparked great controversy due to the green spots that appear on Real Madrid players’ shirts a few minutes after the start of each match.
Perhaps what contributes to increasing green stains on Real Madrid’s uniform more specifically than the guest teams is their full white color, which other colors appear clearly.
The Brazilian uniform Endreck dirty a few minutes after he entered the stadium against Arsenal in the first leg of the Champions League quarter -finals, which was repeated during the season with most of his teammates.
“Marca” indicated that the system used depends on six tablets measuring 105 x 11 meters, the separators are painted, making the coated space very wide.
This project extended to Real Madrid’s training fields in the Sports City, Dibibas, with the aim of providing the same playing conditions in the Santiago Bernabeu Stadium.