While it might sound like a joke, Amazon's smart assistant is a true expert on the beautiful game. It knows the scores of matches, which teams are playing each week, and can even give you a quiz to test your football knowledge. If you'd like to discover everything Alexa knows about football and how it can help you, keep reading because we'll tell you all about it in this article.
Alexa helps you with your daily tasks
Perhaps if you have not investigated too much about the possibilities and functions of this intelligent assistant, you have certain doubts. The truth is that Alexa is good for many more things than just playing music or asking for the weather.
This assistant is integrated into Amazon smart speakers and other equipment such as some Smart TV models, headphones and other speakers, for example. To invoke it, we will only have to say “Alexa” out loud followed by our request.
Some of the main functions we can perform with Alexa are:
- Interact with home automation equipment that we have at home. For example, we could turn on and move light bulbs, the same for our television if it incorporates Alexa or we have an Amazon connected, or even send the vacuum cleaner to clean the house.
- Control our schedule. We can ask Alexa to add appointments or reminders that we need to remember. Then, of course, we can ask him about them or, also, ask him what we have on the agenda for that day.
- Help you make decisions. We have the possibility of asking the assistant to tell us a random number from a range or toss a coin to choose between heads or tails.
What is the best smart speaker with Alexa? Does it all allow us to perform the same functions? These two are good questions to consider. The functionalities are the same in almost all the models, since the only differences will be in those actions that need a screen. These are focused on the Amazon Echo Show or the Fire TV Cube.
However, there are no good or bad models as such, each one is focused on different types of users. If you are interested and want to know what it is like to live with Alexa, we leave you with a video below in which we tell you about our experience.
Everything Alexa knows and can tell us about soccer
Now that you know a little more about the possibilities that this intelligent assistant can offer us, it's time to move on to the truly important thing in this article: how much Alexa knows about soccer.
The best thing about this assistant knowing so many things is that we can ask him a lot of information related to the beautiful game.
soccer mode
We already talked about this recently in another article on our website. Alexa hides a series of hidden modes that we can activate through a voice command.
In the case of football mode, it will be as simple as saying out loud, “Alexa, activate football mode .” To this, the assistant will tell us that it's not quite that simple, and that we'll have to correctly answer two of the four questions it has prepared. Don't think it will always ask the same ones; not at all. The list is quite extensive and varied, although they all have football as a common thread.
If you manage to pass this test, Alexa will start saying typical phrases in the style of a football commentator.
Alexa and the Eurocopa commands
With the well-known European soccer championship just around the corner, Amazon's intelligent assistant is ready to give us all the information we need about it with these commands:
- "Alexa, remind me of the Spain game." This will cause the assistant to create a reminder in your calendar with the next game you play in the championship.
- "Alexa, who's playing in the European Soccer Championship today?"
- "Alexa, how was the game in Spain?" If you missed any of the matches you can ask Alexa to find out the result.
- "Alexa, what happened at the European Soccer Championship?" With this command the assistant will give us a summary of all the important data.
- "Alexa, who's going to win the European Soccer Championship?" As a curious fact, Alexa will be able to make a forecast of who she thinks will win.
- "Alexa, open the European Soccer Championship quiz." A trivia game about the Eurocup.
- "Alexa applauds the Selection."
- “Alexa, sing goal”
- "Alexa, tell me a joke about soccer / about the national team"
- "Alexa, sing the soccer song."
Check this week's games
If you are not very clear about the upcoming meetings, you can ask Amazon's intelligent assistant.
You just have to say out loud "Alexa, what matches are on this week" , ask about a specific team "Alexa, who is Cádiz playing against this week" or ask directly about a specific day "Alexa, what football matches are on today".
Historical soccer data
Among many other things, we can ask this assistant for historical information related to this sport. An example of this could be:
- Alexa, who won the last World Cup?
- Alexa, who is the best player ever?
- Alexa, which team won the first soccer world cup in history?
- Alexa, who won the ballon d'or in 2020?
These are just some of the things you can ask Alexa about. From here, you just need to try different questions for which it surely has an answer.
Information on sports results
Another interesting thing Alexa can help us with is giving us information about sports results for football matches.
We can ask, for example: "Alexa, what position is Cadiz CF in", "Alexa, when is Real Madrid playing" or "Alexa, what was the result of Sevilla".
Even if we register which is our favorite team or teams (which we usually consult their result on a regular basis), we could tell the assistant "Alexa, tell me my sports information".
Curious soccer facts
Finally, and as the most striking details, we can tickle the Amazon assistant.
For example, we can ask her about her preferences : "Alexa, what's your favorite team?" To this, at least at the moment, she responds that she likes Rayo Vallecano.
Or, we can ask it to tell us an interesting fact about the sport. We just have to say, "Alexa, tell me a football anecdote ." The list is quite extensive and might surprise us with facts about the first mascot a team ever had, the oldest state in Spain, the team that has been active in the league the longest, or, for example, information about the European Championships, World Cups, and much more.
These are the best soccer-related questions you can ask Amazon's smart assistant. As we have already mentioned on other occasions, the list of Alexa functionalities grows day by day, so it would not surprise us (especially considering how close the Eurocup is this year) if the possibilities of this theme expand more sooner rather than later We also want to remind you that if you want to continue discovering interesting things you can do with Alexa, don't miss any of the articles we publish on our website.