2010 Copa del Sol 2010 Copa del Sol The 2010 Copa del Sol was the inaugural edition of an annual exhibition international club football tournament held on the Costa del Sol on the south coast of Spain and was played between 3–12 February 2010. The initial tournament featured 8 teams, Molde FK and Rosenborg BK from Norway, Kalmar FF and IF Elfsborg from Sweden, FC Copenhagen and Odense BK from Denmark, FC Shakhtar Donetsk from the Ukraine, and PFC CSKA Moscow from Russia. The teams were divided into two groups, the Blue Group and the Red Group, with the teams placed 1st to 4th
Costa del Sol international celebrities such as Grace Kelly, Ava Gardner, Marlon Brando, Orson Welles, Brigitte Bardot and Frank Sinatra. The Hotel la Roca had opened in 1942, with the Hotel Pez Espada opening in 1959. The Costa del Sol experienced an explosive demographic and economic expansion with the boom in tourism between 1959 and 1974. The name "Costa del Sol" was a brand created specifically to market the Mediterranean coastline of Málaga province to foreign vacationers. Historically the provincial population had lived in the fishing villages, and in the "white" villages (pueblos blancos) a short distance inland in the mountains running down