Marian Damaschin (born 1 May 1965) is a Romanian former professional

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who played as a striker.

Club career

Damaschin was born on 1 May 1965 in

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, Romania, starting to play junior level football in 1974 at local club, FEROM. In 1980 he moved to

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where he started his senior career during the 1982–83 Divizia B, at the end of which the team earned promotion to the first division. In the following season he played 25

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matches for Rapid in which he scored two goals. 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, Damaschin opened the score in the 2–1 win over

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Steaua București, then on 25 June in the Cupa României final, coach

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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

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. 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

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in which he played eight games in the campaign, afterwards returning to 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 once, 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. Afterwards, he went to play in

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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

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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

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, helping the club finish third in the competition at the end of the

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. He also played two games, scoring once as Feyenoord 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

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. Damaschin ended his career in 1993, after spending one season in

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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 netted in European competitions.

International career

Damaschin played five friendly games at international level for

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, making his debut on 2 March 1986 when coach

sent him on the field in the 65th minute in order to replace Romulus Gabor in a 1–0 victory against

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. His following four games were a 1–1 and a 0–0 with

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and a 2–2 and a 1–0 loss with

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, 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

Rapid București * Divizia B: 1982–83 Dinamo București *

: 1989–90 *

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: 1985–86, 1989–90 Feyenoord * Dutch Cup: 1991–92 * Dutch Supercup:

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References

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