Marian Damaschin

Damaschin was born on 1 May 1965 in Urziceni, Romania and began playing junior-level football in 1974 at local club FEROM. In 1980, he moved to Rapid București where he started his senior career during the 1982–83 Divizia B season, which concluded with the team earning promotion to the first division. In the following season he played 25 Divizia A matches for Rapid in which he scored two goals. In 1984 he was transferred to fellow Divizia A club Politehnica Iași. Damaschin spent one season at Politehnica in which he scored nine goals in 34 appearances, after which he went to Dinamo București. On 28 May 1986, Damaschin opened the score in the 2–1 win over rivals Steaua București. Afterwards, on 25 June in the Cupa României final, coach Mircea Lucescu used him for the entire match, during which he scored the goal in the 1–0 victory against the same team. At the time of these two 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. Damaschin helped Victoria reach the quarter-finals in the 1988–89 UEFA Cup, playing eight games in the campaign. Afterwards he made a comeback to Dinamo where in the 1989–90 season, coach Lucescu gave him five league games in which he scored once, as the team won The Double. In the same season they reached the 1989–90 UEFA Cup Winners' Cup semi-finals with him playing one game in the campaign. In the following season he…

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

His son, Mihai Damaschin, was also a footballer.

Rapid București

Divizia B: 1982–83 Dinamo București

Divizia A: 1989–90 Cupa României: 1985–86, 1989–90 Feyenoord

Dutch Cup: 1991–92 Dutch Supercup: 1991