Milwaukee Bucks co-owner Jamie Dinan, who is also the owner and the chairman of hedge fund York Capital, is teaming up with Alexander Knaster, the majority owner of Italian soccer team AC Pisa 1909, and Gianluca Vialli, an Italian soccer legend, to create and run this sports-themed SPAC. (Incorporated in the Cayman Islands)

From the prospectus: “We intend to capitalize on the ability of our sponsor group and management team to identify, acquire and accelerate a business in the global sports industry or an adjacent sector including data and analytics, media and technology. In doing so, we intend to focus our search on iconic businesses, including sports franchises, which will complement our differentiated expertise, benefit from our strategic and hands-on operational leadership and where we believe there are opportunities for attractive risk-adjusted returns and to build a platform for future investments.”

(Note: Iconic Sports Acquisition Corp. upsized its SPAC IPO at pricing on Oct. 21, 2021, to 30 million units, up from 25 million, at $10 each to raise $300 million.)