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, 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. 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. 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 scored 15 goals in 31 Divizia A matches for Dinamo, including one in a 1–0 victory against Steaua. Afterwards, Damaschin went to play in
Netherlands at
Feyenoord where he was a colleague of fellow Romanian,
Ioan Sabău. 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. Three days later he made his
Eredivise debut in a 1–0 win over
Twente. He scored his first goal on 3 September 1991 in a 1–1 home draw against
Roda JC. Damaschin ended his career in 1993, after spending one season in
France at the
Championnat National club,
Grenoble. ==International career==