Background
Born in Angola, Malele moved with his family in Switzerland as a child and grew up in the youth system of Football Club Zürich, also making a couple appearances for their Under-21 reserve side between 2010 and 2011.
Born in Angola, Malele moved with his family in Switzerland as a child and grew up in the youth system of Football Club Zürich, also making a couple appearances for their Under-21 reserve side between 2010 and 2011.
During the summer of 2011, he was signed by Palermo and included into their Primavera squad. After a difficult first season due to injuries, Malele became a key player for the main Rosanero youth team throughout the first half of 2012-2013 season, pairing with another rising star, Mauro Bollino, and being one of the main topscorers of the Campionato Nazionale Primavera. As a consequence, and also due to lack of strikers in the first team, he was asked by Gian Piero Gasperini to join the senior side, and made his professional Serie A debut on 7 January 2013, playing the final minutes of a league game against Parma.
He was featured again on 19 January 2013, playing the final 15 minutes of a home game against Lazio as a replacement to Josip Iličić.
He was successively confirmed for the club"s triumphal 2013-2014 Serie B campaign, where he managed to make only three appearances as a substitute throughout the whole season. On 28 July 2014, Malele was loaned out to newly promoted Serie B club Virtus Entella for the whole 2014-2015 season in order to gain more first team experience.
Malele has appeared for the Swiss youth sides from U-15 to U19.