English Championship side Cardiff City have sent Bafana Bafana star Kagisho Dikgacoi on a solo boot camp in a desperate bid to get the midfielder fit for the new season.

Dikgacoi played just 74 minutes of league football in the last campaign as injuries, and then poor fitness, kept him sidelined in what was a disastrous first season at the club.

Cardiff rate the 30-year-old highly, so much so that coach Russell Slade sent him to train alone in England's Lake District.

"It's been frustrating because we haven't seen anything of him," Slade told Wales Online.

"Clearly, he had a major injury problem and also got himself into a situation where fitness was also an issue."

It appears to have worked, with Dikgacoi set to begin pre- season training with the rest of his team-mates this week.