The play of the center is one of the most important and successful components in today's water polo. Nearly 50% of all goals are scored directly or indirectly through center actions that are crucial for the tactical system during matches. In modern water polo, the game has increasingly become centered around the play of center players, or players at the two-meter position. There is a striving for a much faster, higher-quality, and more attractive game compared to before. With rule changes and the introduction of some novelties, water polo gameplay has become significantly faster. Various analyses have not only proven its effectiveness, but also that this position significantly differs in terms of conditioning from other positions, demanding greater lactate tolerance from center players as they produce more of it than other players. Additionally, centers on average swim less and participate less in the game than other players. This points to the need for their training to be consistently directed towards the specific demands of their position. To make the data more precise, an analysis of the relationship between swimming speed during positioning and success rate was conducted. If they successfully execute actions, centers overall achieve a success rate greater than 60%. In this sense, success is defined as a goal, penalty, or exclusion resulting from an action, which is not dependent on the speed of taking the position or the swimming speed of the center player. Here, much more important are the specific performance assumptions such as technique and individual tactics (especially during moments of transition). Changes in game rules have also contributed to the importance of the center position. However, there is still room for further research into specific swimming speeds depending on player positions in modern water polo, which, as a game, has been expanding more and more in terms of technical-tactical aspects and conditioning aspects.