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By Owain Evans
Cronkite News

TEMPE – The monsoon storm that blew through the Valley earlier this week was a welcome sight for at least one Phoenix Rising player.

“The heat’s been getting to me lately,” said Mustapha Dumbuya, who joined the Rising over the winter after playing a few seasons with Partick Thistle in Scotland’s top-flight and living in the cool, wet climate of Glasgow, Scotland.

“I’ve been crying out for a bit of rain.”

With rain comes lightning, and Dumbuya provides more than his fair share of that in the full-back position for the Rising, with speed that assistant coach Peter Ramage claimed is enough to “catch pigeons.”

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