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It’s early, and Mexican players haven’t made much of an impact in the Canadian Football League yet.

But there is apparently plenty of interest in them back home, and officials with the Liga de Futbol Americano Profesional are on the verge of closing a streaming deal with Claro Sports to show the bulk of CFL games in Mexico.

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Last year, the LFA and CFL announced a partnership that essentially kicked off the global outreach initiative known as CFL 2.0, which has been the pet project of commissioner Randy Ambrosie.

And earlier in June, the CFL announced a deal with Mexico City-based media conglomerate MVS Comunicaciones to broadcast a CFL game of the week for 21 weeks of this season.

“We are very excited and happy to see the Mexican players in the CFL and we are making the effort so that another television company transmits the games by streaming and thus (we will) be able to have all the CFL games available in Mexico,” LFA commissioner Alejandro Jaimes said in an email on Monday.