![Live soccer scores in presentations 6](https://presentationpoint.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/sports-soccer-info-in-powerpoint-slide-show-300x168.jpg)
Get external data
Xscores.com is a company that features real time results for tennis, basketball, hockey, baseball and American football games. You can learn everything about the number of live games that are currently playing and when the next game starts. Xscores.com provides the fastest updates, livescores, keeps track of history results, offers detailed and updated information for all games, gives you the ability to have a personalized experience according to your preferences and interests and is the optimum way to stay updated! When you sign up with them you get your username and password to log in to your account and some documentation on how you read the data from their service. There are 2 types of calls; update calls for live data and structure calls to list countries, competitions, teams etc. If you want to retrieve the soccer matches of this week, you use the following URL: http://data2.xscores.com/exporter/?state=clientUpdate&usr=[username]&pwd=[password]&type=4&s=1. S 1 stands for soccer and type 4 stands for this week’s matches. When you execute this you get this returned by the live sports feed;
![xml data with soccer information](https://presentationpoint.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/sports-soccer-xml-source-code.jpg)
Set up connection
With DataPoint you can use that XML data stream and display a real time score board for a given game, or an overview of the ranking. Let me show you how you can display the score of a given match in PowerPoint with real time data. First make sure that DataPoint is installed on your computer with Microsoft PowerPoint. Click DataPoint in the PowerPoint menu.
![open datapoint from ppt menu](https://presentationpoint.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/PowerPoint-with-DataPoint-menu.jpg)
![click list of connections](https://presentationpoint.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/DataPoint-menu.jpg)
![go to xml node](https://presentationpoint.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/sports-soccer-xml-node.jpg)
![add xml url to add connection to the external xml data](https://presentationpoint.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/sports-soccer-xml-definition-connection.jpg)
![add a data table to the xml connection to get data](https://presentationpoint.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/sports-soccer-with-connection.jpg)
Add queries to xml data tables
Now click the Add query button and select the Home table and click OK to close.
![select home table from table list](https://presentationpoint.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/sports-soccer-home-table.jpg)
![select away table from table list](https://presentationpoint.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/sports-soccer-away-table.jpg)
![select result table from table list](https://presentationpoint.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/sports-soccer-result-table.jpg)
![select card table from table list](https://presentationpoint.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/sports-soccer-card-table.jpg)
![overview of all xml tables we are using to display](https://presentationpoint.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/sports-soccer-all-queries.jpg)
![click text box in datapoint menu to set text box properties](https://presentationpoint.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/click-text-box-properties.jpg)
![select row and number of the xml table to assign it to the text box](https://presentationpoint.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/sports-soccer-text-box-for-club.jpg)
![assign standing of the tournament](https://presentationpoint.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/sports-soccer-text-box-for-standing.jpg)
![add prefex text to the text box](https://presentationpoint.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/sports-soccer-text-box-for-standing-with-prefix.jpg)
![assign the current real-time score to the text box](https://presentationpoint.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/sports-soccer-text-box-for-score.jpg)
Prepare for continuous slide show
Now, as a final action we want to make sure that the slide show will run continuously.  Click Set Up Slide Show in the Slide Show menu and set the Show Type to Browsed at a kiosk and click OK to apply.
![prepare the presentation as slide show](https://presentationpoint.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/powerpoint-on-information-screens-browsed-at-a-kiosk.jpg)
![soccer information in real-time on your screen](https://presentationpoint.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/sports-soccer-info-in-powerpoint-slide-show.jpg)