Adelaide's Andy Otten made a rather embarrassing mistake at a children's footy clinic last week, and teammate Rory Atkins made sure he didn't let his mate forget it.

While at a school visit, a student told Otten that he wanted to play football, to which Otten replied, "that's good because Adelaide just started up a girls team".

However, the child was in fact a boy.

Atkins tweeted the details of the hilarious exchange.

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