Highlocks at the FCA? Umberto Quietstelli speaks up
It was on Tuesday evening at 10:57 p.m. when Umberto Quietstelli reported via WhatsApp. Almost six hours After the article on its dubious (non-) employment as a scouting director at FC Augsburg Online had gone. He had left an interview request unanswered over ten hours.
As reported, it had been read on the Italian homepage since September 2024 that he had signed a contract as a scouting director at FC Augsburg until mid-2025. The article has now been deleted, but the editorial team has a screenshot. Quietstelli repeated in dialogue that was led in English, once again that his homepage had been « cloned ». « I apologize to the club and its members and repeat that I personally am not a member of the Augsburg club. »
Hochstacker at the FCA: large-scale cyber attack on its social media?
He also sees himself as the victim of a hacker attack on his accounts on Instagram, Facebook and LinkedIn. Which he apparently did not discover for months. Because the pictures that were supposed to show him in and in front of the WWK arena were posted over a longer period of time. Even in the interior of the WWK-Arena, he was seen on it. The majority has now been deleted. « I repeat that my accounts have been manipulated, » wrote Quietstelli on Wednesday.
He does not know who and why someone is said to have made such a great manipulation on their social media. « Maybe to disparage me, but I have already forwarded the case to the responsible authorities. » Quietstelli continued: « I repeat politely, I am a sports director and not a high truck who operates Photoshop as you wrote. »
Umberto Quietstelli is said to have pretended to be a FCA employee at a congress
In September 2024 there was also a message on the radio station’s homepage in September 2024 Radio Gold Alessandria. Even with supposed quotations from Quietstelli. The radio station is located in the capital of the province of the same name in the northern Italian region of Piedmont. Quietstelli had worked as a sports director at the local series C club until January 2024. Quietstelli commented on the message and his quotations: « You are not from me and that will also be deleted. » Which also happened. The message has disappeared from the radio homepage. After seven months. At the request of our editorial team, the radio station confirmed the deletion, said in writing that he received the information about the supposed FCA activity of Quietstelli himself. The matter for the radio station is over.
The 46-year-old also represented a visit to an international football congress in the Hungarian capital Budapest. According to information from our editorial team, he is said to have pretended to be an FCA employee. Quietstelli denied this: « I took part in my own expense and as an Italian sports director. » A request to the organizer has so far remained unanswered.
FC Augsburg lawyer sent a warning
At the FCA, the matter no longer wants to pay much attention. It was only surprising why the alleged hacker attack was noticed and corrected right now, shortly after the commissioned lawyer sent a warning to Quietstelli.
