Why Bayern losing Champs League was good

KOCHI: Did Bayern Munich do Germany a favour by losing the Champions League final?
If you look at history as a guide for what is going to happen and if you believe in omens, then the answer could be, YES!
History suggests that the nation, whose club side wins the Champions League (or European Cup as it was initially known) in the same year as the European Championships, has close to no chance of winning the latter.
Ever since the Euros started in 1960, only once has a country won the quadrennial tournament to be named Europe's top footballing nation, in the same year as one of their clubs having won Europe's leading club competition.
That country was the Netherlands back in 1988, who won the Euros after PSV Eindhoven had bagged the European Cup beating Benfica. Five members of that PSV side were part of the Dutch squad. But the statistical oddity created by the Oranje is consistent with the nature of a side, who despite having one of the strongest teams at most tournaments, always managed to buck the odds by faltering on the big stage.
So leaving aside that aberration, winning the Champions League seems to portent doom ahead at the Euros and in that light, Bastian Schweinsteiger's penalty miss against Chelsea in Munich might turn out to be not so bad after all!
To further interest the soothsayers, the last time a German club made it to the final of the European Cup in the same year as the Euros was back in 1979-80, when Hamburg finished runners-up. West Germany won the Euros that year.
Also, the team Hamburg lost the final to? Another English club in Nottingham Forest! Just coincidence? Or do the numbers foresee fate?