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

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who played as a striker.

Club career

Marian Damaschin was born on 1 May 1965 in

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, Romania, starting to play football at

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, including spending one season in

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in which he scored two goals in 25 matches. In 1984 he was transferred at fellow

club, Politehnica Iași where he spent one season in which scored 9 goals in 34 appearances, at the end of the it being transferred at

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. In his first season spent with '' The Red Dogs'' he managed to win a

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, scoring the only goal of the 1–0 victory in the

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against

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and recently

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winner, Steaua București. In the middle of the 1987–88 season, he was transferred at

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in exchange for Claudiu Vaișcovici, where in one year and a half he scored 17 goals in 42

games and helped the club reach the quarterfinals of the 1988–89 UEFA Cup in which he played 8 games in the campaign, afterwards returning at Dinamo. In the 1989–90 season under the guidance of coach

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, Dinamo won the title and the cup with Damaschin playing 5

games in which he scored one goal, also the team reached the 1989–90 UEFA Cup Winners' Cup semi-finals with Damaschin playing one game in the campaign. In the following season he scored 15 goals in 31

matches for Dinamo which earned him a transfer in

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where he was colleague with fellow Romanian,

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. He spent one season with '' The Club on the Meuse'', making his debut on 14 August 1991 when coach

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from the 1991 Dutch Supercup in which he scored the goal, three days later he made his

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debut in a 1–0 victory against

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, making a total of 29 appearances with 9 goals scored as the club finished 3rd in the competition, also he played two games and scored one goal as the club won the 1991–92 Dutch Cup and he helped the team reach the 1991–92 European Cup Winners' Cup semi-finals making 5 appearances in which he scored one goal in the semi-finals against

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. Marian Damaschin ended his career by spending one season in

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club, Grenoble Isère. He has a total of 185

matches in which he scored 55 goals, 29 appearances with 9 goals in

and 22 matches with two goals scored in European competitions.

International career

Marian Damaschin played 5 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 against

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and a 2–2 and a 1–0 loss against

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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

Dinamo București *

: 1989–90 *

: 1985–86, 1989–90 Feyenoord *

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: 1991–92 *

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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Damaschin, Marian 1965 births Living people People from Urziceni Romanian footballers Men's association football forwards Romania men's international footballers FC Rapid București players FC Politehnica Iași (1945) players FC Dinamo București players Feyenoord players Grenoble Foot 38 players Eredivisie players Liga I players Romanian expatriate footballers Expatriate footballers in the Netherlands Romanian expatriate sportspeople in the Netherlands Expatriate footballers in France Romanian expatriate sportspeople in France Sportspeople from Ialomița County