"Я люблю футбол."

Translation: I like soccer.

[ChloeElisabethC]

Can this also mean I like football?

[Shady_arc]

Yeah. It mostly depends on what you call "football". The kind of football common in the US enjoys popularity in Canada, U.S., Australia and New Zealand. So most countries that borrowed the word "football" use it for soccer (the kind of football that they know).

However, if you imagine for a moment that some community in the U.S. primarily uses Ukrainian, not English, it is only natural that they would call their own football "футбол" (even though it is not what Ukrainians mean).

[joeyambyth]

I would also suggest football