Everardus "Edu" Snethlage (9 May 1886 – 12 January 1941) was a Dutch physician and footballer who played as a forward for HVV Quick and the Netherlands national team, becoming the all-time top scorer of the latter in 1909.

[citation needed] Snethlage spent his entire playing career at HVV Quick in The Hague, thus being part of the so-called one-club men group.

[1] Snethlage began playing football with HVV Quick, which he joined in June 1901, at the age of 15, together with his two-year older brother Bram, who would also make it to the first team.

[1] Initially, Snethlage played in midfield as a right winger, but from the 1906–07 season onwards, he was drafted into the frontline, first as a center forward, but soon as inside right.

[1] Snethlage was indeed so coveted by the English that Hull City FC offered him a professional contract in 1909 during a trip from Quick to Sheffield, but although he feels honored, he immediately rejects the offer because he wanted to establish himself as a doctor in the Dutch East Indies, where he was born, and certainly not as a professional football player.

[1] Snethlage represented the Dutch team at the 1908 Summer Olympics, playing both matches as an inside right as he helped his nation win the bronze medal in the football tournament.

[1][2][4] Snethlage spent the night before the bronze medal match in the London nightlife, emerging only at the field with just a few minutes to go.

[2] The manager Edgar Chadwick was furious, but put Snethlage on the team, who played great and scored the second and decisive goal in a 2–0 win over Sweden.

[citation needed] Snethlage improved his record by scoring a hat-trick in the Low Countries derby against Belgium on 25 April 1909.

On 6 February 1925, he married Louise Henriette Van der Jagt in Soerabaja; the marriage ended in divorce in the early 1930s.