Career
Once he stopped playing, he became a coach and sports event organizer. After World War 2 he played on the Latvian Soviet Socialist Republic team (1945–1949). Beginning from 1940 he worked as a player-coach.
In a 1990s interview, Krauklis said: "Frankly saying – these three Baltic states raised the European basketball.
Now they say that its Spanish, and so what? Let them say. And I say – it"s our merit!".
From 1949–1958 Krauklis organized and managed BK Rīga „Spartaks” (in 1953 for a short period of time he was managing BK Rīga ASK Group (a software company)). In 1958 on the basis of team BK Rīga Spartaks he formed the professional team BK VEF Rīga, with which he was connected until 1975.
He was nominated as a Meritorious coach of Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics. He also worked in Latvian youth basketball for 25 years, coaching VEF Rīga Children’s team and a youth sports school.
The sports school was later named after him. Riga annually holds an international basketball tournament for youth, the Alfrēds Krauklis memorial tournament.