Malamine Efekele

Malamine Efekele (born 19 July 2004) is a French professional footballer who plays for Belgian club Cercle Brugge, on loan from Monaco.

Club career
Born in Livry-Gargan, Malamine Efekele joined the AS Monaco academy in 2019, from the Bondy football club, after also spending some time in the INF Clairefontaine.

During the 2021–22 season, despite being sidelined for several months because of injury, he was among the top goalscorer of Monaco under-19s.

Efekele signed his first professional contract with the club on the summer 2022, then making headlines for his striking resemblance to Kylian Mbappé, both in term of profile—a Bondy-grown paced striker playing in the Monaco academy—and physical appearance.

The following season, he played both the Championnat U19 and the Premier League International Cup,  emerging as one of the standouts of the academy by March 2023, having proven to be decisive against the likes of West Ham, as he scored a brace in a 2–1 away International Cup win against them.

On 24 January 2024, Efekele moved on loan to Cercle Brugge in Belgium.

International career
Efekele was born in France and is of DR Congolese descent. He was called up to a training camp for the DR Congo U20s in December 2021. He is a youth international for France, first receiving a call with the under-19 in March 2023, along the likes of Warren Zaïre-Emery and Mathys Tel.

In May 2023, he was selected with France under-20s for the FIFA World Cup.