Football team turns to artificial intelligence for tactics

A non-league football club have employed artificial intelligence to try to get the edge over their opponents. Seventh-tier side Wingate and Finchley FC will be using an Amazon Echo system to help choose their team formations and make pre-game and in-game tactical decisions. The smart speaker will be linked to a computer and use information spoken to it by coaches to make tactical suggestions and even provide Kevin Keegan-style inspirational quotes. The manager could, for example, ask Alexa what the best formation would be. The AI would then ask a series of questions about the team and the opponents before proposing an answer.