The Switch Play As a Means of Facilitating Success in Football

The present investigation delves into the performance indicators in elite soccer, the change of orientation was taken as an object of study trying to identify and describe its presence and typology as a means for the successful development of the attack. For this, the observational methodology was used and an ad-hoc observation instrument was developed, implemented in the Lince Plus software, to carry out the data recording and coding process. Reliability was guaranteed through Cohen's Kappa coefficient and the Generalizability Theory. An analysis of the relationship of categorical variables and T-Patterns has been developed according to the levels of success. The conclusions reached in this work have revealed that the presence of the change of orientation is a means that favors and facilitates the achievement of favorable offensive situations to reach the goal in elite football.