When people discuss influence, metrics such as trending topics, advertising sponsorships, and other numbers are often more direct and specific.
This is a fact, and undoubtedly these comprise an important part of influence; however, this is not the whole picture.
In the world of competitive sports, influence also encompasses increasing attention to the sport, inspiring young players and amateur enthusiasts, changing the industry's overall conditions for survival, and so on.
Michael Jordan. Roger Federer. Tiger Woods. Michael Schumacher. Serena Williams.
And many others.
These legends, without exception, all possess this kind of invisible yet undeniably existent influence—a profound legacy immortalized in history with a power greater than numbers, transcending even the status of GOAT to carve their names into the annals of time.
Of course, players capable of such influence are themselves GOATs.
Now, Li Wei has this kind of opportunity.
