This TIFO focusses on sporting events as a platform for ‘showing off’ a nation to the world. This piece in particular focuses on Poland as one of the host nations for Euro 2012. The piece argues that if Poland is to use the UEFA as a venue to broadcast its changes to the world, it must first work to eliminate the racism that surrounds its football teams. Germany was successful in using the 2006 World Cup to show how far it had come since the 1990 reunification. South Africa in 2010 showed the world how vibrant and accepting it had become too since its reunification. The 2012 Euro Cup was a stage for the reintegration of Eastern Europe, former Soviet states, into the EU area.