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Matt Rizzetta

Founder | Underdog Global Partners | Executive Producer “Running with the Wolves”, an ESPN Original Series

📍 United States🔄 Updated November 2026💼 2 investments📅 4 years investing🗓 Last invested Jun 2024
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Jun 2024
The word Diaza is originally from Colombian ancestors and was used to encourage the men to be strong and protect their tribes. In a New era, Diaza means ‘right mentality,’ always pushing forward. Diaza wants to bring the same mentality to the soccer apparel game; we want our teams to have the right mentality, to push forward always to believe they can achieve the best of themselves. We want to create a new culture within our brand, teams, and community. Diaza offers exclusive Customize uniforms to any Soccer team that wants to have their own identity. From the pros to the Sunday league team, we don’t care about the level. We don’t care about the league. We love the game and offer the same treatment to any team/organization. Apart from soccer uniforms, we offer different Customize apparel, tracksuits, training uniforms, jackets, coaching gear, sweatpants, polos, bags, soccer balls, hoodies, caps, winter clothing; we do it all; just ask.
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May 2022
America Domani is the leading digital media community for the 17 million Americans of Italian heritage and millions more who have a love and affinity for Italian culture. Staying true to the “Domani” name, which means “Tomorrow” in Italian, America Domani showcases a wide array of engaging content from top Italian American influencers and personalities, including news, food and wine, culture, travel, comedy, success stories, entertainment and more. America Domani was created through purchasing the licensing rights to the historic America Oggi newspaper and the revival of Il Progresso Italo-Americano. Both titles live proudly on the America Domani community as dedicated sections for current events and historical content chronicling the Italian American journey over the past centuries.
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2025
Founder and Managing Partner
Sep 2025
Underdog Global Partners (UGP) owns, operates and advises on assets that unlock unique experiences, provide exclusive access to a global ecosystem of relationships and target attractive return profiles. UGP’s portfolio spans sports and entertainment, real estate and media/IP with a focus on the following: • Access: UGP’s assets unlock access to a global ecosystem of relationships, networks and influencers across multiple industries. • Experiences: With assets in the most desirable locations in the world, UGP provides investors with unique experiences and priceless memories to share with loved ones. • Value Creation: UGP has a stellar track record of sourcing and negotiating assets with low-risk high upside profiles and increasing enterprise value prior to exiting. Existing assets include international women’s soccer powerhouse Donna Roma (formerly Res Roma); Napoli Basketball, one of the most exciting ventures in global basketball; Canadian Premier League expansion franchise FC Supra, the first CPL team to be founded in the Province of Quebec; and historic Italian football club Campobasso FC, which under UGP ownership has been transformed from an amateur team into a highly valuable professional sports enterprise. In 2025, Campobasso became the only club in the world other than Wrexham to secure a major network television series, entitled “Running With the Wolves” airing on Disney and ESPN.
2024
Investor
Jun 2024
The word Diaza is originally from Colombian ancestors and was used to encourage the men to be strong and protect their tribes. In a New era, Diaza means ‘right mentality,’ always pushing forward. Diaza wants to bring the same mentality to the soccer apparel game; we want our teams to have the right mentality, to push forward always to believe they can achieve the best of themselves. We want to create a new culture within our brand, teams, and community. Diaza offers exclusive Customize uniforms to any Soccer team that wants to have their own identity. From the pros to the Sunday league team, we don’t care about the level. We don’t care about the league. We love the game and offer the same treatment to any team/organization. Apart from soccer uniforms, we offer different Customize apparel, tracksuits, training uniforms, jackets, coaching gear, sweatpants, polos, bags, soccer balls, hoodies, caps, winter clothing; we do it all; just ask.
Co-Owner
May 2024
Dagenham & Redbridge Football Club is an English professional football club based at the Chigwell Construction Stadium, Victoria Road in Dagenham, Essex. The Club has been as high as League One, the third tier of English Football and currently plays in The Vanarama National League, tracing their history back in various forms to 1881. For more details visit the official club website at www.daggers.co.uk
2022
Investor
May 2022
America Domani is the leading digital media community for the 17 million Americans of Italian heritage and millions more who have a love and affinity for Italian culture. Staying true to the “Domani” name, which means “Tomorrow” in Italian, America Domani showcases a wide array of engaging content from top Italian American influencers and personalities, including news, food and wine, culture, travel, comedy, success stories, entertainment and more. America Domani was created through purchasing the licensing rights to the historic America Oggi newspaper and the revival of Il Progresso Italo-Americano. Both titles live proudly on the America Domani community as dedicated sections for current events and historical content chronicling the Italian American journey over the past centuries.
2021
Co-Owner
Aug 2021
LAscoli Calcio F.C. 1898 è una società calcistica italiana con sede nella città di Ascoli Piceno. LAscoli è la più blasonata società delle Marche, vantando il maggior numero di stagioni in massima serie e numerosi trofei. Fondato nel 1898, lAscoli è il quarto club più antico dItalia. I colori sociali sono il bianco e il nero. Ha disputato 16 stagioni in serie A (miglior piazzamento il 4º posto nel 1979-80) e 19 in serie B. Dalla serie cadetta ha ottenuto cinque promozioni. Ha vinto due campionati di serie B, uno di serie C, uno di serie C1, una Mitropa Cup e una Supercoppa di Lega Serie C1. Ha giocato inoltre una finale del Torneo Anglo-Italiano contro il Notts County nel 1994-1995. Il 22 giugno 1980, a Hamilton in Canada, vinse il torneo internazionale The Red Leaf Cup, cui parteciparono anche Botafogo, Nancy e Rangers. Vanta il record assoluto dei punti totalizzati in un campionato di serie B a 20 squadre con 2 punti a vittoria: i 61 punti della stagione 1977-78 furono il risultato di 26 vittorie, 9 pareggi e 3 sconfitte. La squadra era guidata dal tecnico Mimmo Renna. LAscoli ha ottenuto i suoi maggiori successi sotto la presidenza di Costantino Rozzi (dal 1968 al 1994)
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