Marian Damaschin

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Marian Damaschin
Personal information
Date of birth (1965-05-01) 1 May 1965 (age 60)
Place of birth Urziceni, Romania
Position(s) Striker
Youth career
1974–1980 FEROM Urziceni
1980–1983 Rapid București
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
1983–1984 Rapid București 25 (2)
1984–1985 Politehnica Iaşi 34 (9)
1985–1987 Dinamo București 48 (11)
1987–1989 Victoria București 42 (17)
1989–1991 Dinamo București 36 (16)
1991–1992 Feyenoord 29 (9)
1992–1993 Grenoble
Total214(64)
International career
1986–1991 Romania 5 (0)
* Club domestic league appearances and goals

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

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Club career

Damaschin was born on 1 May 1965 in Urziceni, Romania, and began playing junior-level football in 1974 at local club FEROM. [1] [2] [3] In 1980 he moved to Rapid București where he started his senior career during the 1982–83 Divizia B, which concluded with the team earning promotion to the first division. [1] [2] [3] [4] In the following season he played 25 Divizia A matches for Rapid in which he scored two goals. [1] [2] [3] In 1984 he was transferred to fellow Divizia A club Politehnica Iași. [1] [2] [3] Damaschin spent one season at Politehnica in which he scored nine goals in 34 appearances, after which he went to Dinamo București. [1] [2] [3]

On 28 May 1986, Damaschin 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 the entire match as he scored the goal in the 1–0 victory against them, who were, at the time of these events, the recent winners of the European Cup. [1] [2] [3] [5] In the middle of the 1987–88 season, he was transferred to Victoria București in exchange for Claudiu Vaișcovici. [1] [2] [3] [6] Damaschin helped Victoria reach the quarter-finals in the 1988–89 UEFA Cup, playing eight games in the campaign. [1] [2] [3] [6] [7] 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 The Double. [1] [2] [3] [6] [8] In the same season they reached the 1989–90 UEFA Cup Winners' Cup semi-finals with him playing one game in the campaign. [1] [2] [3] [6] [9] In the following season he scored 15 goals in 31 Divizia A matches for Dinamo, including one in a 1–0 victory against Steaua. [1] [2] [3] [10]

Afterwards, Damaschin went to play in Netherlands at Feyenoord where he was a colleague of fellow Romanian, Ioan Sabău. [1] [2] [3] [11] He made his debut on 14 August 1991 when coach Hans Dorjee played him for the entire game in the 1–0 victory against PSV Eindhoven in the 1991 Dutch Supercup in which he netted the goal. [1] [2] [3] [11] [12] Three days later he made his Eredivise debut in a 1–0 win over Twente. [13] He scored his first goal on 3 September 1991 in a 1–1 home draw against Roda JC. [13] Until the end of the season, Damaschin made 29 appearances in the league, netting nine goals, including one in a 2–0 De Klassieker victory against Ajax, helping The Club on the Meuse finish third. [1] [2] [3] [11] [13] He also played two games, scoring once as Feyenoord won the 1991–92 Dutch Cup and 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. [1] [2] [3] [11] [14] Damaschin ended his career in 1993, after spending one season in France at the Championnat National club, Grenoble. [1] [2] [3] He has a total of 185 Divizia A matches with 55 goals and 22 matches with two goals netted in European competitions. [1] [2] [15]

International career

Damaschin played five friendly games at international level 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. [3] [16] [17] 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. [3] [16]

Personal life

His son, Mihai Damaschin was also a footballer. [3] [18]

Honours

Rapid București

Dinamo București

Feyenoord

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 "Marian Damaschin profile". Archived from the original on 27 September 2007. Retrieved 9 June 2007.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 Marian Damaschin at National-Football-Teams.com
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 "Marian Damaschin – fotbaliști de legendă!" [Marian Damaschin – legendary footballers!] (in Romanian). Tikitaka.ro. Retrieved 2 May 2025.
  4. ↑ "Marian Damaschin profile". Dinamo.webstyler.ro. Archived from the original on 4 October 2022. Retrieved 2 May 2025.
  5. ↑ "Dinamo Bucuresti in 1985-86". RomanianSoccer. Retrieved 4 October 2022.
    "Romanian Cup – Season 1985–1986". RomanianSoccer. Retrieved 8 October 2024.
    "Finale de nota 10 Dinamo – Steaua, 1986. Au băut dintr-o cupă găurită" [Grade 10 Finals Dinamo – Steaua, 1986. They drank from a cup with holes] (in Romanian). Prosport.ro. 14 May 2010. Retrieved 8 October 2024.
  6. 1 2 3 4 "Cum au fost create marile echipe ale anilor '80?. Episodul 3: Dinamo - Show cu doar 14 "câini". Dar de rasă" [How were the great teams of the '80s created? Episode 3: Dinamo - Show with only 14 "dogs". But dogs of race] (in Romanian). Gsp.ro. 25 March 2021. Retrieved 4 October 2022.
  7. ↑ "Memorialul puterii, episodul 2: Victoria București" [The Memorial of Power, episode 2: Victoria Bucharest] (in Romanian). Wesport.ro. 2 June 2020. Retrieved 8 October 2024.
    "Marian Damaschin - Europa League 1988/1989". WorldFootball. Retrieved 4 October 2022.
  8. ↑ "Romania National Champions". RomanianSoccer. Retrieved 8 October 2024.
  9. ↑ "Marian Damaschin - Cup Winners Cup 1989/1990". WorldFootball. Retrieved 8 October 2024.
  10. ↑ "FCSB – DINAMO Cine domină duelurile jucate în luna octombrie: scorul e 9-5" [FCSB – DINAMO Who dominates the duels played in October: the score is 9-5]. Gsp.ro. 1 October 2019. Retrieved 10 October 2024.
  11. 1 2 3 4 "Dennis Man, gata să doboare toate recordurile! Feyenoord a venit la București pentru el. Cât cere Becali + cât ar oferi olandezii" [Dennis Man, ready to break all records! Feyenoord came to Bucharest for him. How much is Becali asking + how much the Dutch would offer] (in Romanian). Gsp.ro. 13 March 2020. Retrieved 4 October 2022.
  12. 1 2 "PSV Eindhoven 0:1 Feyenoord". WorldFootball. Retrieved 4 October 2022.
  13. 1 2 3 "Marian Damaschin - Eredivisie 1991/1992". WorldFootball. Retrieved 4 October 2022.
  14. ↑ "Marian Damaschin - Cup Winners Cup 1991/1992". WorldFootball. Retrieved 4 October 2022.
  15. ↑ Marian Damaschin at WorldFootball.net
  16. 1 2 "Marian Damaschin profile". European Football. Retrieved 4 October 2022.
  17. ↑ "Egypt 0-1 Romania". European Football. Retrieved 4 October 2022.
  18. ↑ "Nostalgiile iesene ale lui Damaschin" [Damascene's Iași nostalgia] (in Romanian). Ziaruldeiasi.ro. 28 January 1999. Retrieved 4 October 2022.
    ""La Dinamo, cu noi, tinerii, nu se puteau face combinații. Fiecare acționar avea câte un jucător, doi. Aduceau străini cu salarii de 200.000 de euro și nu știau să dea o pasă"" ["At Dinamo, with us, the young people, no combinations could be made. Each shareholder had one player, two. They brought in foreigners with salaries of 200,000 euros and they didn't know how to give a pass"] (in Romanian). Prosport.ro. 28 May 2020. Retrieved 4 October 2022.
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