Players of Mexican soccer team Puebla canceled training on Tuesday and threatened to boycott games in the domestic competition because team owners have not paid their salaries.

"I will not be an accomplice to what the owners are doing to these players," the team's manager Jose Luis Sanchez told local media, adding that players will not return until their salaries are paid.

Puebla reached the semifinals of Mexican soccer's opening tournament, which ended earlier in December, and reached the quarterfinals in the closing competition, which ended in July.

Sanchez told media that the team's owners are "taking the risk" and said that they should show their faces and speak to the players.