News Despite coming from a country that has 11 official languages, the South Africa women’s football team has found a way to communicate seamlessly during matches “English is the language we use on the field,” South Africa head coach Vera Pauw said “Everybody speaks English, some better than others, but if somebody is not understanding it well then somebody else is helping "After two-and-a-half years of having me as a coach, that does not happen anymore For us, the language barrier is not a problem at all ” For a multicultural team, it has taken time and patience to forge the bond that the South Africans enjoy Having one language everyone on the team understands helped with that process Olympic Games tickets are available to buy on the Rio 2016 portal “A lot of us speak English to each other,” forward Jermaine Seoposenwe said “We speak Zulu, Sotho, Xhosa Any language that my team-mates speak I can understand I can’t really speak it back to them, but I try to reply in English We just speak all of our languages on the field "It has kind of made a bond I don’t think it’s a problem, communication as a whole is good for the team, so any which way we can communicate with each other, we should do it " The team's nickname 'Banyana Banyana' means 'The Girls' in Nguni Captain Janine van Wyke said: “We all come from different cultures and speak different languages, but we all have one passion and that is to do well “It’s teamwork on the field; we work for each other It doesn’t matter what colour you are or anything as such We’ve come a long way We work together and we’ve really become a family ” There are eleven official languages of South Africa: Afrikaans, English, Ndebele, Northern Sotho, Sotho, Swazi, Tsonga, Tswana, Venda, Xhosa and Zulu  Fewer than two percent of South Africans speak a first language other than an official one Most South Africans can speak more than one language South Africa's Group E match against China kicks off at the Olympic Stadium at 19:00