# Marian Damaschin

Marian Damaschin (born 1 May 1965) is a Romanian former professional footballer who played as a striker.

## Club career

Marian Damaschin was born on 1 May 1965 in Urziceni, Romania, starting to play football at Rapid București, including spending one season in Divizia A in which he scored two goals in 25 matches. In 1984 he was transferred at fellow Divizia A club, Politehnica Iași where he spent one season in which scored nine goals in 34 appearances, at the end of it being transferred at Dinamo București. On 28 May 1986 he opened the score in the 2–1 win over rivals Steaua București, then on 25 June in the Cupa României final, coach Mircea Lucescu used him all the minutes as he scored the goal of the 1–0 victory against the same team, at the time of these both events, The Military Men were the recent winners of the European Cup. In the middle of the 1987–88 season, he was transferred to Victoria București in exchange for Claudiu Vaișcovici, where in one year and a half he scored 17 goals in 42 league games and helped the club reach the quarter-finals of the 1988–89 UEFA Cup in which he played eight games in the campaign, afterwards returning at Dinamo. In the 1989–90 season under the guidance of coach Lucescu, Dinamo won the title and the cup with Damaschin playing five league games in which he scored one goal, also the team reached the 1989–90 UEFA Cup Winners' Cup semi-finals with him playing one game in the campaign.
In the following season he scored 15 goals in 31 Divizia A matches for Dinamo, including one in a 1–0 victory against Steaua which earned him a transfer in Netherlands at Feyenoord where he was colleague with fellow Romanian, Ioan Sabău. He spent one season with The Club on the Meuse, making his debut on 14 August 1991 when coach Hans Dorjee used him all the minutes in the 1–0 victory against PSV Eindhoven from the 1991 Dutch Supercup in which he scored the goal, three days later he made his Eredivise debut in a 1–0 win over Twente, making a total of 29 appearances with nine goals scored as the club finished third in the competition, also he played two games and scored one goal as the club won the 1991–92 Dutch Cup and he made five appearances in the 1991–92 European Cup Winners' Cup as they reached the semi-finals where he scored one goal against AS Monaco. Marian Damaschin ended his career by spending one season in France at Championnat National club, Grenoble Isère. He has a total of 185 Divizia A matches in which he scored 55 goals, 29 appearances with nine goals in Eredivise and 22 matches with two goals scored in European competitions.

## International career

Marian Damaschin played five friendly games at international level for Romania, making his debut on 2 March 1986 when coach Mircea Lucescu sent him on the field in the 65th minute in order to replace Romulus Gabor in a 1–0 victory against Egypt. His following four games were a 1–1 and a 0–0 with Iraq and a 2–2 and a 1–0 loss with Norway, the last game being the only one in which he played as a starter.

## Personal life

His son, Mihai Damaschin was also a footballer.

## Honours

Dinamo București
* Divizia A: 1989–90
* Cupa României: 1985–86, 1989–90
Feyenoord
* Dutch Cup: 1991–92
* Dutch Supercup: 1991