Banyana Banyana coach Desiree Ellis has revealed that the mood is high in the camp as they look ahead to their first-ever Fifa Women’s World Cup game against Spain on Saturday.

The South African Women’s national team will come up against the Spaniards in their opening fixture of the tournament, and the coach avers that the team is upbeat despite a few bad results in recent friendlies.

‘Two years of hard work, getting to qualify first and preparing from there on, now the moment is there, we had a couple of friendlies where we didn’t get good results,’ Ellis told SAFA.

‘In training the mood is high, the players are excited and we are practically there, getting ready for our first game against Spain, and that is going to be crucial for us.

‘We want to make sure through all our training that players understand what it is that they need to do on the field, because come game day it is all about them, we would have done our job, it is all about them putting everything together, supporting and encouraging each other on the field.

‘We are analysing Spain and they are obviously analysing us, at our previous game they had a whole entourage of people there.

‘It is our first World Cup, we are in a difficult group, but we know of what this team is capable,’ she concluded.