Editors note: This story originally appeared as part of the Hispanic Heritage Month series from One Nacion and ESPN Deportes.Can you have a divided heart? Of course you can.Diana Taurasi is a womens basketball superstar, winning three WNBA titles and six EuroLeague championships over her 12-year professional career, as well as four Olympic gold medals wearing the stars and stripes.She was born in California to an Argentine mother and an Italian father. It is precisely these two nationalities that have stolen her heart, blood and appetite.I am 90 percent Argentine and Italian and 10 percent American, Taurasi told ESPN at the start of National Hispanic Heritage Month. At home, we ate Argentine food, spoke Spanish, watched soccer. I still have the Latino and Italian spirit.Taurasi, who confidently proclaims leaning toward all things Latino, has spent most of her life in the United States, where she has achieved her greatest triumphs. In August, she won her fourth gold medal in Rio de Janeiro. In college, she won three consecutive NCAA championships (2002-04) at the University of Connecticut before being selected as the No. 1 overall pick in the 2004 WNBA draft. Her self-assuredness as a guard was apparent from the beginning, and she received no shortage of individual awards and collective recognition after leading UConn to a 139-8 record during her career.Taurasi took to American culture like a duck to water, although her identity was very clear.Argentina and Italy are her favorite countries and it shows not only in the food she eats -- Barbecues and pizza with egg, and a little spaghetti with sauce, gnocchi, mate and wine -- but in all fields of her life. Family comes first for Taurasi, who entertained several family members during the Phoenix Mercurys recent visit to Los Angeles.She is feisty, ironic and sassy. Just ask FIBA about the time Taurasi refused to comply with a regulation that she felt was an insult to women. In order to play in the 2012 EuroLeague, players had to adapt their uniforms. The shorts had to end at least ten centimeters above the knee and could not be more than two centimeters wider than the thigh. The players also had to show their shoulders and wear jerseys that did not sit at the same height as their shorts, or were always tucked into them. Taurasi flatly refused and ended up paying out several hefty fines.Thats more Argentine; Argentines are always shouting and emotional, she added.Taurasis successes in Russia and Turkey and at the European level during the winters, as well as her commitment to the Mercury, have prevented her from traveling regularly to Argentina. She says five years have passed since her last visit to Argentina, the country where her mother was born and the place where her father arrived as a goalkeeper before finally quitting soccer. That is the source of Dianas love for soccer, and her worship of Diego Armando Maradona, who she met in the bleachers during a mens basketball game between the United States and Argentina.I saw Diego and asked someone if I could get a picture and say hi. Within 10 minutes, someone from the U.S. came over and off we went, she said. He is God; he is the one who always represented us in good times and bad. The champion.Taurasi was asked who her biggest Hispanic inspiration is in the world of sport.Diego is God to all Argentines, she said, but Manu [Ginobili] came from Argentina and changed the game in the NBA, how you play. And now Messi, with his touch and his worldwide impact, it has to be Messi.Together with Luis Scola, Ginobili also gave her the best advice she ever received.I have spoken a little with Manu and Luis Scola, we have the sense of being Argentine and I am very proud to play in the U.S. at such a high level, she said.And so, setting aside her heart and focusing on the American 10 percent, Taurasi has an eye on the next Olympic Games, which would be her fifth. At 34, she knows she needs to make a decision, but first she needs to do two things.I need to speak to [USA Basketball] and to myself.One conversation will be in English, the other in Spanish. Marc-Andre Fleury Jersey Large . Westbrook has missed 27 games since having a procedure on Dec. 27 to deal with swelling in his injured right knee — the third operation on the knee in nine months. Custom Golden Knights Jersey China . 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