Over the past three days, football persons have been locked up in a healthy banter over Ghana's future direction.
Ghana successfully ended the three-day Com-Unity seminar, a presidential initiative sponsored by Fifa which gathered various football stakeholders to deliberate on the values of the sport on Thursday.
The session was aimed at developing grassroots football and participation.
At the end of the stakeholders meeting, the consensus was that the hard work begins now if further progress was to be made for a nation so dominant in football both at the seniors and junior levels.
Participants exchanged frank views and agreed that the event provided the catalyst to augment the FA's four-year development plan.
Kwesi Nyantakyi, President of the Ghana Football Association admits that the country has learned fresh lessons from Fifa's Com-Unity seminar held in Accra.
The FA President says the first steps of further broadening the relationship between the sport body and the Ghana's footballing community has already started.
"This event has met my expectation. All issues were adequately addressed by the team of experts drawn from here (Ghana) and brought by Fifa.
"I beleive Ghana got the best out of this seminar which has lived up to its billing.
"Contact was made, issues deliberated upon and conclusions reached but the most important thing for us is the lessons learned and the first steps of implementation.
"The seminar has also demonstrated the close collaboration between the FA and government and all parties have shown their commitment to the development of the game at the grassroots level.
The Ghana Football Association's vision is to re-energise the development of grassroots football.
"Without the grassroots, there would be no Black Stars. The Black Stars is the finished product and I know it sells but it all begins from somewhere, grassroots. That's (grassroots) the base where it all begins and a lot of funds, efforts and commitment must go into it.
"Programmes in our Four-Year Development plan are already in place and still on-going across the country.
"But we've to move it a step higher to achieve our targets," Kwesi Nyantakyi said at the closing event.
The Com-Unity brought together Ghana's footballing officials, government, Non-governmental organisations (NGOs), education officers, the media and sponsors.
Ghana's sports minister, Mohammed Mubarak Muntanka was full of praise for Fifa's efforts to bring the seminar, the first of its kind in West Africa to Ghana.
"We are very happy to have hosted this event which has seen Fifa contribute immensely to our game's development.
"We would seek further co-operations to develop the game and would always make ourselves available to hold such important seminars."
Fifa experts including Avry Yvon Azmel Marie, Colin Udoh and Kalusha Bwalya all made valuable contributions.
Kalusha Bwalya, who represented Fifa President, Sepp Blatter told the Ghanaian side that the real business of attaining success begins now.
"The beginning of the real work starts now.
"Lets translate the lexicons to actions. Ghana is a fine footballing nation but needs to further sustain it and improve.
"The grassroots needs much more attention if the country wants to reach the top."