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Their Biggest Story of 2017 17/01/2018

Gabriele Goffredo - Anna Matus, MDA © Roland

Over the seven years of their partnership, Gabriele Goffredo and Anna Matus, MDA, managed to build up a massive fan base in virtually every country where WDSF DanceSport is being followed and talked about. And that is just about everywhere.

Their move to the Professional Division, which was announced by Anna through her Facebook page on Monday 15 January,  triggered hundreds of comments and reactions by fans of the Moldovans across all social media.

Gabriele and Anna have developed into real "global players" when it comes to their popularity. Their names appear in online articles around the world. Let's have look back at 2017:

IWGA Athlete of the Year 2017 Awards: The best team were dancing couple Gabriele Goffredo and Anna Matus from Moldova.
Olympic Highlights | February 2017

Gabriele Goffredo - Anna Matus from Moldova won the GrandSlam Wuhan.
China National Radio | April 2017

The World Games 2017 Wroclaw: Moldovan duo Gabriele Goffredo and Anna Matus won the opening DanceSport title of the night.
insidethegames.biz | July 2017

Gabriele Goffredo and Anna Matus come both from poor families. But they love to dance and are ready to sacrifice it all for dancing.
Giadinh ("Family" in Vietnamese) | August 2017

The biggest story of the year on Gabriele and Anna broke on 18 November - and it broke after they had already won their third consecutive World Champion Latin title.

It made the news in hundreds of countries!